Word: frightingly
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...Carroll, a dignified and severely dressed man who had refused to talk before (on the ground that he, like Frank Costello, wanted no part of television), also provided a few refreshing moments. He seemed nervous at first and complained about the lights. Said he: "You have injected the fright factor...
...fright at the moment?" solicitously asked Committee Counsel John Burling. Said Carroll: "That is right. I don't know if I can answer when I am frightened. I have the phenomenon of mike fright...
...improvement calls for the old fright elevator to be replaced by a new, automatic one. A five-foot hole must be dug in the cellar to provide space for some of the apparatus involved...
...York Times's radio critic Jack Gould was appalled by Flash Gordon, an interstellar TV serial based on a comic strip. He damned it as "a macabre and sordid half-hour" which had no other purpose than "a stimulation of horror, fright and ghoulish suspense." Appealing to executives of the Du Mont network as "men of sensibility and judgment," Gould asked that something be done about the show (Sat. 6:30 p.m. E.S.T.), which "so easily can have an unhappy aftermath in the impressionable minds of youngsters...
...ever made: automatons produced largely in the 18th Century by Swiss and British craftsmen. There was a gold caterpillar that, when wound, inched along a tabletop in a pretty fair imitation of nature. A gold mouse, ridged with pearls, scurried, stopped, spun and darted about as if in real fright. An emerald-green frog jumped and croaked...