Word: frightener
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...District Commissioners hoped by ousting kindly Dr. Smith to frighten her pupils into good behavior, they were sadly disappointed. Immediate consequence was the liveliest riot of the year. First the inmates of the school, armed with knives, sticks, milk bottles and baseball bats, surrounded the main building to demand Dr. Smith's return. Three days later, enraged when the staff got eggs and they got hash for breakfast they revolted again, forced the staff to call police to restore order...
Numerous acts of violence have occurred at the race-track in the past few months. Large numbers of thugs, gangsters and racketeers have assembled on and about the premises. Mr. O'Hara, the managing director of the race-track, has imported known criminals into the State to coerce and frighten public officials. He has illegally interfered with the conduct of office of the former sheriff of the county, so as to require the removal of that sheriff. (This refers, among other matters, to the charge that this sheriff appointed deputy sheriffs who had criminal records...
...their jaws apart till they snap, or holding them by the tail, you crack them like a whip and their head flies off. But what to do when suddenly confronted by a shark, or barracuda ? Should one set up a tremendous splashing and threshing about, and thus attempt to frighten him off, or should one lie log-still, in the hope that he will merely sniff and go on about his business? One of such opposite courses must be considerably healthier than the other. Seriously, TIME, which...
...including Austrian (?) revolutions ("We have them every fortnight now"), a German lunatic asylum ("Everything for the leader"), and a London cabaret ("British love is the best"), by all means go to the Copley. Don't lot the fact that "The Dog" is supposed to be propaganda for rugged communism frighten you away either. The propaganda is there all right, if you want to look for it, but it doesn't jump out at you, and I am afraid that the objects of Auden's satire haven't enough connection with normal American life to make it very effective...
Taking possession of the premises he settles down for the night in Mrs. Wetherby's guest bedroom. She tries to frighten him by lending him a pair of gargantuan pajamas which, she says, her husband has discarded as too small. In the picture's funniest sequence she puts on a pair of hiking boots, clumps up the stairs in simulation of a drunken male's arrival while Raymond, swathed in yards of striped pongee, listens trembling in his bedroom. Next day, after he has volunteered to act as butler at a dinner she is giving to celebrate...