Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quorn was due to meet in Leicestershire's Loughborough last week on Boxing Day when a spasm of horror racked Sir Harold and his subscribers. Word slipped out that a crass and venal Loughborough manufacturer proposed a novel stunt to advertise his pants and shirts. As the Quorn met he would release a fox dressed in shirt and pants...
With Irene, who has just had her 16th birthday, it is different. She likes Sir John well enough but the notion of his sharing her mother's bed fills her with repugnance and horror. Irene has been deluded into believing that her mother's first marriage was a happy one. When Sir John and Mrs. Lawrence go off to be wed at his country place. Irene slips out into the February night to drown herself in the Thames. She changes her mind but almost freezes to death in the process. It takes the combined reasoning of Sir John, her frantic...
...late, great Editor Harvey Scott writhe in angry protest. Headlines were blacker, shallower. Inside were more and bigger pictures than Oregonian readers had ever seen. A banner headline glared across the sports page, and there were awful rumors that one might soon stream across Page One. Crowning horror was a Bible contest, with fat cash prizes and endorsement by local clergymen...
Dovotees of the arts have been forced by their comparative weakness into a belligerently defensive attitude. They cultivate a contempt for precision and a horror of practicality. Thus the scientists, seeing artistry in this artificial light, become more firmly satisfied of their own essential correctness. Between the arts and the sciences the gulf widens. Literary men and philosophers recede further into their pleasant vacuum of impracticality; while scientists, penetrating ever deeper into the structure of matter, also lose connection with the deeper problems of life...
...Lecky, pursued by some imminent horror, went to ground in the basement of the department store. Gradually, as he heard no sounds of pursuit, he got up enough courage to seek a better hiding place. His first weapons of defense were a kitchen knife, a fire-axe. Literate but not handy, he found his way to the sporting-goods department, got a supply of guns but had to read the instruction book before he could load one. His first shelter he contrived out of a platform of doors placed over an open compartment. Later he fortified a lavatory, provisioned...