Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...
Britain and Bombs. At Burgos, Spanish Rightist capital. British Agent Sir Robert Hodgson informed Generalissimo Franco's Government of His Britannic Majesty's Government's "horror" at civilian losses in Leftist Spain. At Tokyo, British Ambassador Sir Robert L. Craigie objected to "indiscriminate" aerial attacks on Canton. While Laborites in the House of Commons pointedly demanded that Britain do something besides "hold up her hands in horror." Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, outlined a plan to organize a small, neutral, independent, international commission to investigate all bombings...
Chubby Presiding Genius Quin Ryan, whose radio activities include reading funnies to the kiddies and broadcasting football games, takes any angle suggested by the answers he gets to his inquiries about newlyweds' problems and personalities. He broadcasts in constant terror of a scandalous answer, recalls with horror the girl who told the listening world that she had for months been trying to cure her fiance of the habit of smoking...
HASTY WEDDING-Mignon G. Eberhart -Doubleday, Doran ($2). The marriage of a Chicago heiress, coming after the murder of her ex-suitor, arouses the suspicions of Detective Jacob Wait. Good characterizations, a sustained atmosphere of horror; one of the best mysteries to come out of Author Eberhart's typewriter...
Next evening the Mazama Club assembled in their Portland headquarters to discuss Varney's death. As they talked they discovered to their horror that another of their party, Russell Gueffroy, a Vancouver teacher and electrician, had not been seen since he had picked up his skis at the cache near Crater Rock and had wandered down the mountainside. They learned that his car was still parked near Mazama Lodge, that he had not reported for work Monday morning. Next day the Mazama Club trudged up Mt. Hood again with little hope of finding Russell Gueffroy-under 19 inches...