Word: horridness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chapter 11: Threat. Proud of its solution though it was, the Reich was highly dissatisfied with the threatening role the supposedly neutral Netherlands had played in this horrid affair-allowing an alleged chauffeur to be captured and a Dutch Army officer shot dead while apparently assisting British spies...
...paper's name in which its more-or-less reverent editors insert (instead of the weather forecast or NIGHT EDITION ***** ) thoughts for the day, mots on the news, quotations from the philosophers. During the War, L'Oeuvre's, editors became so clever at making horrid cracks at the Government through outwardly innocent references to the weather or some theatrical success that Anastasie (the Censorship) cracked down. Last week Paris oldsters read a manchette that set them to reminiscing about the great battles between Anastasie and L'Oeuvre. With the Censorship again slashing through the French press...
...anti-Semitic delegate jumped up and shouted, "Who sent for him? What does he represent? Whom does this Jew represent?" A U. S. newspaper correspondent slapped the delegate's mouth. Einstein was so angry at this display of race prejudice that he went back to his hotel, made horrid sounds on his violin until his feelings were soothed...
Such actual plant traps as these have probably inspired the tall tales told by imaginative travelers about others much bigger and much more dreadful. Miss Prior, who dismisses them all as fables, quotes a Dr. Carl Liche who claimed to have seen a woman sacrificed, with horrid ceremony, to a "man-eating tree" in Madagascar. A sojourner in Brazil said he saw a tree which attracted monkeys by means of a peculiar odor, hemmed them in a prison of leaves, dropped their bare bones after three days. Centuries ago a very tall tale popped up about a gigantic Death Flower...
...party very seriously except the Nacistas. The Nacistas take everything seriously. Last week the Nacista Congress at Santiago was very grave about a serious mistake everybody (except the Nacistas) had made for a long time-namely, confusing the word Nacista with the word Nazi. The latter, they said has horrid meanings; Nacista has the most innocent root in the world- "birth...