Word: frightfully
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Trembling witnesses went pale and stuttered with fright as they testified at Kovno last week against the dread onetime Chief of Lithuania's Political Police, Herr Jacob Badchis, now on trial for acts of gross brutality, extortion and malfeasance in office...
...earthy newshawks of Milan were busy assembling the final grisly details of the bomb-butchery. A small boy had been beheaded by a flying segment of the fatal lamp post. A young woman's leg had been cut off. An old woman had died, although unhurt, simply of fright. Saddest of all was the tragedy of a father who had learned that his wife and five children were so gravely injured that Death might be expected to lay a cold hand upon all of them within a few hours. Maddened with grief, the poor man butted his head against...
Birthday for Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, grand old lady of the U. S. theatre (born March 12, 1845). She played with charm the role of the grandmother in the musical comedy, Just Fancy, in Chicago, professed a little stage-fright after 63 years on the boards...
...parties, sat up and preened their coats, or barked merrily. To stroll into this lowest floor, where the dogs were "benched" was like strolling into a rout or reception, as imagined by some satirist whose fancy was for the morbid & grotesque; a tramp would have died, surely & instantly, of fright...
...Hellup, a retired U. S. millionaire. Lord Hellup's daughter, Bo, and her lover, John Maple, were also on the scene with nefarious plans. Being something of a ventriloquist and wearing spooky robes, John Maple makes Rackham seem haunted. Gouty Lord Beaurivage is carried out in a fit of fright. Hilda agrees to sell Rackham to John Maple at his price, falls into the arms of Lord Hellup crying: "Hannibal! ... I mean, Hamilcar!" O happy ending! O lack of murder...