Word: horror
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...removed from her clutch a newspaper which seemed to be the cause of her extraordinary perturbation, spread it out so that the light of the kerosene lamp fell upon its crumpled front page. The woman fell silent to watch his face which, as he read, sharpened, paled with incredulous horror. The paper was a copy of the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet. In huge black capitals across its top leered the headline QUAKE SHAKES CITY. Beneath was a picture of the famed skyline of lower Manhattan, evidently taken from an airplane...
...scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen lamp turned his eyes, glazed with horror, upon the erstwhile screaming woman. They looked at each other with a wild conviction. The City of New York was utterly destroyed...
...picture of California with some of the sunshine omitted. The old man, the young wife, the inevitable lover. DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-Eugene O'Neill's treatment of the same old man, young wife and lover situation. More deeply tragic, more directly frank. WHITE CARGO - The horror of the white for the brown melts away under the lonely suns of Africa. SILENCE-The good old crook-and-virtue melodrama played to excellent emotional returns by H. B. Warner. OLD ENGLISH-An unsatisfactory "old British gentleman" play by Galsworthy made into keen entertainment by George Arliss' performance...
...those who insist upon every man's right to "indifference", there is no horror greater than the meaningless bombast of college yells. Those chaotic confusions of trills, barks, and sensless syllables arouse, and justly, the disgust of those who hope that college is a breeding ground of intelligent manhood. But is there in the recommendation of the Council any suggestion that such idiocies are to be perpetrated? The present cheer, when efficiently and enthusiastically supported by the stands, resounds majestically within the Stadium and the Bowl. There is no threat against the dignity and strength of the traditional cheer...
...memory only a student's scholastic rank will rest simply upon a report of "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory" on both his course and his tutorial work. The absurd preoccupation with delicately shaded course grades which now descends like a plague on the College at examination periods will them be a horror of the past. Some system of judging a man's work is necessary, but there is no reason why the present unbalanced and unjust machinery should be allowed to operate forever...