Word: horror
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour later, after having hear'd not only of the complete confession but also that my own grandson was one of those marked for death by the kidnappers, 'left the office with white face and changed demeanor.' My knowledge of the facts had filled me with horror...
WINE OF FURY?Leigh Rogers? Knopf ($2.50). Against the black and bloody canvas of the Russian Revolution, this story rises sombre and of more than usual interest. The author, a young American who has lived some years in Russia, has caught all the swift horror of those cataclysmic days, has limned his plot against a background that rings true. Rasputin moves evilly through the picture, and Kerensky, Lenin, the dreaded Cheka are delineated with more than a modicum of truth. It is a colorful, kaleidescopic tale, ranging from scenes among the simple, suffering peasants to all the lavish splendor...
...flee his native land; impecuniosity compels him to do hack work in the popular music concern of Al Tyler (Donald Gallagher). Here he furnishes orchestrations and harmonies for the musically illiterate composers of song hits and barely succeeds in supporting an exceedingly beautiful daughter (Betty Weston). To his horror he finds his boss putting out Moonlight Mama, a hit founded on the treasured composition of his youth. Worse, his daughter marries Al Tyler to save her father from starvation. But all comes right in the end. Tyler, better than he looks, splits the royalties in the song success with...
...gamble with the gods of chance. When he emerges from the strain of intellectual competition, or as one critic would prefer, the pernicious influences of a vapid university atmosphere, he may find himself a second Shakespeare, a second Dante, a second Leonardo; of his family may discover to their horror that all he can remember of his past life is a somewhat garbled version of "Mr.--is requested to call...
...this general analysis is true there can be no doubt whatsoever that the newspaper world is admirably fulfilling its mission. Yet one hesitates to accept Dr. Lee's dictum. It takes little investigation to prove that publicity's sought and cherished, rather than regarded with that horror which usually attaches itself to the wages of sin. And should this definite philosophy be firmly fixed in the public mind, one might draw the regrettable conclusion that the President of the United States and the Prince of Wales are the most sinful of men. To reward sinners with fame seems the very...