Word: fright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost photographic in their realism and have a brutal treatment which spares nothing, no matter how grim or repulsive. His "Wounded Man in Retreat" shows the head of a soldier, a great wound in his forehead from which the blood drips about his eyes, with an intensity of fright and pain in his expression which could not well be duplicated. The bulging, staring eyes, the dirty, straggly beard and disheveled hair, the open, gaping mouth, all give force and a distressing realism to the picture...
Probably the second string sophomore five will see action tonight and be given a chance to redeem itself after the rather poor showing it made Wednesday. This group is not lacking in ability. Their weakness lies in their inexperience and occasional attack of stage fright. Allowed a few more opportunities on the floor and this group will give the Varsity a hard fight...
...flight 150 bedridden patients in the Government's hospital at nearby Fort Harrison. When two people were killed, more than 40 injured, the population fled in a panic from Montana's capital, tented outside of town or slept in automobiles along open highways. To add to their fright and misery, snow came down...
King Solomon of Broadway, however, manages to be ingratiating when Band Leader Pinky Tomlin is blinking with fright or playing his guitar, when Miss Page is singing and strutting...
...squeaked in competition, while young men in knitted shirts pitched championship horseshoes. The Fair offered no greater sight than the team pulling contest. The first time F. F. Martin of Bridgewater tried to hitch his huge draft horses to the pulling machine (a truck rigged backwards) the beasts took fright when the doubletree dropped against their heels, tossed Owner Martin, bolted into the crowd. The next time they struck the earth with their hoofs until it trembled, tugged the truck down the course in short order to win the event...