Word: horror
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entirely unrelated to the somewhat sordid suicide of four promising American undergraduates within the space of a few weeks. The only explanation that is sufficiently vague to be true is that of failure to adapt oneself to an inevitable, remorseless environment, an environment of natural hardship and of social horror. The biologist would claim it to be the elimination of the unfit in the struggle for existence, and as such a natural and beneficial part of the law of life. The theologian must interpret it in different terms, no less valid. It is an integral problem of modern life...
American Grand Guignol. One might expect the French horror-plays, in view of the season's successful exploitation of all phases of sex perversion, to prove fascinating box-office material. Not so. Perhaps it is because the theatre is way down in one of the Greenwich Village nooks of inaccessibility; possibly because one-act plays do not sell in Manhattan; possibly, also, because the production is heavyhanded. In one play, a paralytic suddenly discovers he has the ability to strangle daughter-in-law, which he does with gusto. In another, choice Chinese diabolisms are dramatized. On the whole, there...
...such a thing happens one of two things is bound to follow, either she will madly plunge deeper till in a few years (10 to 15) she will go down in disgrace to a grave where such fallen women find a place, usually the pauper field; or, if in horror she recoils from what she has done she will live her life as best she may always feeling the "scarlet letter" on her breast even though it cannot be seen by others...
Citizens of Rio de Janeiro fortified themselves for the worst and visited the Zoological Gardens last week. There, in a caged watertank, lay 24 feet and 352 pounds of mottled horror. Hunters had stalked the jungle for nine months. Wary of their prey they had laid a great bait. At last he had come, eunectes murinus, the snatcher, coiling dangerously out of a dark stream. They took him after he had gorged and lay inert. Natives clustered about chattering, "Sucuri! Sucuri!" (local term for a reptile). They dreaded the monster as do all hunters save immediately after its meal, which...
Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy: "I gasped not with horror when 'Sergeant Major Jiggs,' famed bulldog mascot of the Marines, was dropped from an airplane in a parachute and drifted crazily down to the crowd of spectators at the football game between the Quantico Marines and the Fort Benning (Ga.) Infantry, fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 29). Ladies near me shuddered, hid their faces lest the intrepid bulldog should meet his doom; some said, 'How cruel!' Bulldog Jiggs landed safely. . . . Then last week I received letters from the Anti-Vivisection Society and from the Society...