Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assyrian incident, which was composed in London into a world-redounding episode of horror, is in reality one in which the Iraki government was placed on the defensive by external offending influences...
...Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart,* on whose case hearings were in progress last week at Chicago. Youngest of 13 children, Frances Cabrini was born in Italy in 1850. She founded her sisterhood in 1880. Saved as a child from drowning, she had a lifetime horror of water, but this did not keep her from crossing the Atlantic 24 times on the business of the order. The Sacred Heart Sisters now have 5,000 members, maintain 200 institutions all over the world, including Columbus Hospital in Chicago where Mother Cabrini died in 1917. Last week...
...moved out of her cabin and took Grammy with him. Soon afterwards he went away on the "underground," trying to "make free." But it was the "blind underground"; a few days later he was found in a swamp with his head bashed in. Grammy grew up with a horror of "makin' free." And he liked the plantation life. He was smart with mules and horses, like his daddy, and quickly rose to be the most responsible slave on the place. After the usual amount of pleasuring he settled down to married life with Penny. The Civil War never seemed...
...heroes. From the bottom of their portfolios were lifted such blood-curdling pictures as went into The Honor of It published last year by Brewer, Warren & Putnam as a frankly pacifist tract (TIME, March 21, 1932). Though The First World War contains half a dozen prints used in The Horror of It its totality of effect is not achieved by gore or rotting human flesh. Its awfulness results from reducing death and destruction to a commonplace...
...Price Glory);, scenarioist (The Big Parade), spent three years mulling over thousands of War pictures from every available source to make his selections. Says he: "A militarist will be disappointed with them for there are not enough pictures of guns and tactical groups. A pacifist will not find enough horror. . . . Here is the camera record of chaos." There is no running text. Editor Stallings' captions are terse, provocative, sometimes sarcastic. He quotes freely from Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger and Kipling. One could wish for far more detail with each print...