Word: horror
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FraulËin, with minds as sticky as chewing gum, giggled and gasped and choked and exclaimed aloud in horror...
...this commotion was caused by the trial of a monster-Fritz Haarmann, charged with the murder of 27 persons. After a trial exciting the horror and disgust of the whole nation, Haarman and an accomplice named Hans Grans, who aided in one of the murders, were sentenced to death. Haarman was found guilty of 24 murders. Said he upon hearing the verdict...
...effects of opium vary according to the mental disposition of the consumers. To the bright, happy man all manner of pleasing scenes are presented; an ambitious man will fancy himself a gloried Napoleon; a man will liverish fancy man will himself be seized with morbid visions and filled with horror and dismay. About half to one hour is necessary for the opium to take effect and cause slumber from which the consumer awakes exhausted, pensive and melancholy. The drug is dangerously habit-forming and becomes so necessary to the addict that he cannot live without a regular supply...
Half an hour later, all Cairo echoed with the news of the attempted assassination. Premier Saad Zaghlul Pasha hurried to the Residency and expressed his deepest regrets and profoundest horror. King Fuad dispatched his Grand Chamberlain to offer his sympathy and regrets. On all sides, obviously sincere horror at the crime was evinced...
Premier Zaghlul reiterated King Fuad's feelings of horror at the perpetration of a crime that he branded as inimical to the best interests of Egyptian independence...