Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Commerce Roy Dikeman Chapin was "capable, likeable-a business man." Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde "had a horror of short-selling of stocks which Wall Street couldn't quite share, but he made his contributions to the achievements of the Administration." Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis was "quick-acting, a good fellow. He has not been found guilty of any crime in connection with the Moose. His successor [the late William Nuckles Doak] was of a little higher type, I think...
...development which has raised gooseflesh on the sensitive epidermis of these moguls is the news that the government will subpoena forty bank presidents so that they may shed some verbal illumination on their financial practices. An added horror was lent to the announcement, when the financiers beheld their fellow martyr, Mr. Harvey L. Carke, most unwillingly damning himself by his own testimony, and when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless...
Acting upon the gentlest hints from undergraduates, and in full accord with the spirit of the House Plan, the tutors in Eliot House have doubtless decided by this time to give over the daily tutors table. To date, however, they have shown a commendable horror of backslapping and mere vulgar companionability, and a tendency to Fabian tactics in making their reform. Obviously haste would be most undesirable when dealing with so old a tradition as the tutorial table of Eliot House. There is a widespread feeling among the students, however, that it would be very nice if by Thanksgiving Dinner...
...group, which represents a bare majority of the Liberal Club, has arranged a monster program, intended to combat war. To start the proceedings, it has decided to hold a mass-meeting on Boston Common this Saturday morning, for the discussion of the path to peace; at the meeting, "The Horror of It," a collection of choice photos of corpses and the like, will be sold. This gathering, it is said will be an intercollegiate affair; at least, some Wellesley students are expected to attend. Afterwards, if the plan goes through, there will be another meeting on the Widener steps, timed...
Their first activity will be distributing peace propaganda at the Armistice Day parade in Boston. They will give out pamphlets of "The Horror of It" a photographic study of warfare in the trenches. Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Boston University are joining in the demonstration...