Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipmasters who have viewed with articulate alarm the "cruises to nowhere" sponsored by foreign lines, last week viewed with something akin to horror a new policy of Cunard Steamship Co. Cunard passengers would not be carried to "nowhere," but they would be carried elsewhere for hardly any cash fare at all.* Under an arrangement with Morris Plan Corp. of America, industrial moneylenders, Cunard inaugurated a system of installment plan transportation that would enable the wanderlusty to go to Europe for as little as $34 down...
...Alan Gray, former organist of Trinity College, Cambridge and a composer of note, discovered with horror last week that he had rented the local Y. M. C. A. hall to exhibitors of Soviet posters who were displaying Lenin's famed slogan "Religion is opium for the people...
Japanese soldiers, once their advance got completely behind schedule, fought with mounting ferocity which presently became "frightfulness." Neutral white witnesses reported with horror how Chinese civilians were shot down, how Chinese property in the form of houses, barns, hay and grain was ignited by the Japanese...
Craftily he commits the murder so as to incriminate Teresa's lover, Dr. O'Leary, son of a prominent Dubliner, whom Ferriter hates. But he had not reckoned on the psychological aftermath, finds the next day that he has a feeling of horror rather than of a holy sacrifice well performed. To get his self-righteousness corroborated by others he tries to persuade the editors of two Dublin newspapers to feature the murder-story as a testimony of Divine Wrath against evildoers. They think he is mad; by this time he obviously is. The man who murdered Teresa...
Meanwhile Detective Lavan has discovered incriminating evidence against Ferriter, gives him a grilling. Ferriter promises to produce the real murderer before midnight. He tries to confess to a priest; to his horror finds that he, the jealous lover-murderer, no longer believes in God. He rushes to the slums to drink, confess to harlots. In a scene reminiscent of Dante's Inferno, Joyce's Ulysses, he confesses himself to one of three diseased harpies who play with his disintegrating personality the way vultures play with bones...