Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt threw up his hands, widened his eyes in mock horror. "Oh, no!" cried...
...August von Mackensen, who was sitting on Adolf Hitler's right, nor Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, who was on his left, moved a muscle to prevent what, for all they knew, might have been an attack on the Realmleader. As apple-cheeked S. S. Guards, with horror on their boyish Nazi faces, came bounding forward, the California Kisser blithely disengaged herself, was permitted to run to her husband who had shot the whole sequence with his home cinema camera. "Hitler," enthused Mrs. de Vries, "was ever so nice...
...bombs were discovered in Germany by Allied commissioners. They were found to be Thermite bombs which do not explode but silently produce one of the hottest known chemical reactions, easily burning through a slate roof. Many authorities on the next war consider that while gas bombs will wreak gruesome horror, more actual damage will be done by Thermite bombs...
Wrong prices are so rare as to be almost negligible as a source of loss on the books. Montgomery Ward recalls with horror, however, that once tilt sheeting was erroneously priced at 92? instead of $9.25. A few alert customers jumped in with large orders, which were filled at the list price...
...Rothschild for example, a Bank of France regent for a generation, may be re-elected after his next three years are up only by taking a year's holiday. Debate in the Chamber was remarkably brief. Opponents of the reform bill held up their hands in holy horror at what they called the growth of "Etatisme"-government-in-business, State Socialism, etc. etc. Cried a conservative Deputy...