Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge and Boston and especially the region of Harvard Square, will mean to the outside. The story is full of touches and names, many of them literal (King Coffin has the residents of the Plympton Street apartment all agog. Aiken lived there until last year), which accentuate the horror of the story by their very familiarity...
Year ago Butterick Company sold Adventure to Popular Publications (Dime Detectives, Dime Sports, Horror Stones), one of the better companies which serve 10,000,000 U. S. readers with 100,000,000 words of pulp fiction per year (TIME, Sept. 16). Last week Adventure's Publisher Henry Steegar and Editor Howard Bloomfield had an adventure of their own. Off Massachusetts their 49-ft. schooner-yacht Mariana was picked up by a gale, hurled through a granite breakwater, beached by raging seas close to Plymouth Rock...
...horror of Paths of Glory eloquently communicated in the novel and just as ably conveyed from the stage by Adapter Howard and Producer Hopkins surpasses that found in most realistic War literature. In addition to the wasteful slaughter between sides, Paths of Glory reveals a cannibalistic phase of war in which men on the same side want to take each other's lives...
...World-Telegram was a direct development of an article called "?And Sudden Death" by Joseph Chamberlin Furnas published in the August issue of Reader's Digest (TIME, Aug. 12). Using that article's brutally realistic method of shocking motorists into a vivid realization of the physical horror of a bad automobile wreck, the World-Telegram thus became the first important daily to put its newscolumns into the amazing safety crusade which "?And Sudden Death" started two months...
Adams missed the thrill of anticipation that has become part and parcel of a year's residence in Cambridge; the thrill of horror before the perennial epidemic of German measles: the sense of being a pawn in the hands of fate as the onslaught sweeps unchecked from House to House...