Word: horror
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MITYA'S LOVE-Ivan Bunin-Holt ($2). To one who can feel the horror of talking into empty rooms, of screaming into unechoing abysses, of writing to no response, of being knouted by silences-to such a one this story of Mitya's adolescent love for unanswering Katya tolls familiarly. Mitya did love the young, amorous girl. When she put her little hand on his arm and looked up at him, he was very happy and not a little proud, and "strode along, like a country boy, so fast that she could hardly keep up with him." There...
Martha Washington. "In any case, the meeting with Martha was a blessing to him [Washington]. He was none of your intellectuals himself, no bookworm. He had gone through years of loneliness in rain and snow, in horror, bloodshed and defeat. He needed above all things a plump little widow to take him to her soft breast and give him repose and the luxury of a home. If he could not give her the passionate ardor of his first love, neither could she give him hers...
...when she came to the Metropolitan Opera to sing for $75 a week. More children, Herr Schumann's, were added to Herr Heink's* string. At the Metropolitan she was at home, but there were the children. . . . She went into musical comedy. They lifted their hands in horror at the Metropolitan but they took her back when she was ready to come because no one else could sing Wagner as she could. She left the Metropolitan again, went touring the country in concert, into towns much smaller than Stevens Point, into army camps, schools, hospitals, East, North, South...
...confirmation enough-the American's beat was assured. But the reporter decided to do the decent thing and called on Mr. Lee. He told Mr. Lee that the story already was confirmed and that it was an American exclusive. But Mr. Lee, to the reporter's horror, said that beats were less than nothing to him. Inasmuch as the fact of the engagement had thus prematurely leaked out, all the newspapers would be notified. At eight o'clock, he said, a formal statement would be given out at the Rockefeller home. The American man's protests...
...That is as far as he got! I was wild with rage and bitterness; I must insult him if it was my last act. I quickly reached up, grabbed hold of his long beard and gave it a violent jerk. To my unutterable horror his head came off in my hands and-I woke...