Word: horror
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Koilikuntla, India, the soft padding paws of leprosy touched the face of a betel-nut dealer, name unknown. As he sat by himself, as he fingered the decayed horror of his nose and mouth, there arose in his mind a hideous obsession. At last he gathered some companions about him. Mumbling with loose, torn lips, he made his thoughts clear to them. "I," said...
...upon the family to which he returns. Author Feinstein is a poet. In fact he won the Nation's poetry prize in 1922. Hence his disregard for the pedestrian logic of coherent storytelling. In a fine frenzy of disillusion he causes the hero, named Edsel, to mouth his horror of the corpse-strewn Argonne, what time, back on the family farm, he cuckolds his hayseed brother Hiram. For some reason Hiram's wife, Rebecca, believes in life-weary Edsel as the ambassador of a richer existence. After the bucolic Hiram has fled his shame, she stays on until...
...Pork is a good food. One of the best. Religion may forbid it, but that idea will die with the older generation. While pork has been avoided with horror for generations as 'unclean,' it is now being eaten by our younger generation...
...mother's and Naomi's horror he has learned about drink from the hunkies. To his own horror, he learns about women from Naomi, who bears twins in her effort to hold her man. But he is enamored of Mary Conyngham, widowed sweetheart of his childhood. She installs him in the barn of Shane Castle (the Shane family, bygone royalty of "the Town," being lugged in to connect this book with its predecessors as another "panel" in the Bromfield series). Mary Conyngham is out to rescue Philip from his mother, whose pious meddling caused everyone...
...hostile airplanes, said Station 5-CL. The planes had just been sighted, pouncing and swooping in from the North. A few moments later the station told that the invading air navy was dropping poison gas bombs, flame throwers, and showers of poisoned darts. For ten minutes the vision of horror and destruction was conjured up with more and more terrifying realism. Then Station 5-CL blandly announced that there was not one word of truth in its "program," which had merely been put on "because of complaints that the usual features offered by our regular artists have been growing stereotyped...