Word: horror
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Herald: "In and out of the various counterplots is woven the most blinding sidelights on the horror that it must give a sensitive girl to walk along Broadway...
...perpetrators argue that the picture will be a club to beat back the rising trade in dope. Horror stares from the club, from handle to head. Yet horror and fear are ineffective deterrents because they dwell in the back of the mind, while material temptation stares directly in the eyes
Battling Siki, Negro heavyweight, grows stranger week by week. Tex Rickard queried the Senegalese by cable on his terms for a bout with Kid Norfolk in America. Siki's response named such an enormous figure that even the expansive Rickard held up his hands in horror...
Then there is the Grand Guignol-the theatre of one-act playlets of horror and somewhat ribald mirth. No American visit to Paris is quite complete without one seance at the Grand Guignol. The Vieux Colombie-a highly original repertory company of experimentalists in the new stagecraft-should furnish you with several delightful evenings, even if you understand as little French as most New York theatrical critics do Russian. The Guitrys whatever they are acting in, individually or collectively, are worth observation. The Pitoeff company playing at the Comedie Champs Elysees, in The Lower Depths, Androcles and the Lion...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: " It is not a dull world as you escape from your little corner and look around hurriedly. A colony of women in one part of London have solved their living problem by becoming professional rat catchers, in spite of a woman's ancient horror of rats, dating from days when the cave woman came home to find that cave rats had eaten her baby. They catch the rats alive, 25,000 of them a month, and sell them to doctors and others for vivisection for eight cents each...