Word: horror
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When she returned from Russia she was furious at being lodged in a " refuge." " Me, a propagandist, who comes to visit Russia with but one object-to serve her. Par exemple! Really, anti-Bolshevists, had they arranged my trip in order to give me a horror of communistic Russia, would not have done better...
...enthralling feats through 250 pages or more. One's enjoyment of the recent tale of murder and psychoanalysis, from the pen of Mr. Ben Hecht, is neither augmented nor impaired by the eventual disentanglement of its complexities. It is the quaint, initial assassination itself, the atmosphere of brooding horror, the haunted eyes of De Medici, that fling the reader of The Florentine Dagger (TIME, Sept. 3) into a bewildered Nirvana of goose flesh and insomnia. It is the mental gymnastics of Sherlock Holmes or the chemical fumblings of Craig Kennedy that delight, rather than their eventual (and predictable) triumphs...
...some time appraised as one of the most distinctive of modern English writers. A would-be picnic in the chestnut-woods above the Italian village of Ravello results surprisingly in a 14-year-old English boy's encounter with Pan himself- to his great delight and the utter horror of all his relatives and friends. Another youngster discovers that a certain blind alley in London is the stopping-place for a line of celestial omnibuses, conducted by such defunct immortals as Shelley, Dante and Sir Thomas Browne. A curate meets a Faun. A very worthy man attempt...
...People do not realize the gravity of the situation. Time may obliterate the horror of it, which can not be understood unless one came in close contact with the catastrophe. It brought rich and poor together on the same footing. They helped each other, and, though penniless, they knew the true value of life, having come face to face with death
...ordination of work already done or a groundwork on which to do some hurried building, will especially appreciate this opportunity. To the freshman as well, the course will offer an opportunity for making wise provision against a rainy day. To him divisionals still seem a dim and distant horror, a cloud no bigger than a man's hand". But the storm comes on space and the death-bed absolution furnished at great cost by tutoring bureaus is apt to be a sorry affair...