Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston subway really represent progress. But he still holds firm to his belief that green grass and college campi are one and inseparable, and when it is proposed to remove a major part of the remaining vestiges of grass, particularly in the Yard, the Vagabond's soul recoils with horror. Controversy there is bound to be over the erection of a new chapel, and the Vagabond does not propose to stay out of the controversy. Here is his suggestion, humbly offered to a can-did world...
...towering apparition of the 1928 presidential campaign was the Equalization Fee for Farm Relief. Urged by Senator Borah and other Insurgent Republicans, it was decried by regular Republicans as an economic horror. Under it, the U. S. would have bought surplus wheat from farmers at market prices less a fixed fee, shipped the wheat abroad to sell for what it would bring. The Government's losses on the transaction would have been "equalized" in part by the farmers...
...Alas!" lamented H. R. H. in conclusion, "Those who gamble will gamble at anything. ... I have a horror of gambling." Upon this firm, High Church foundation the present Edward of Wales and Prince George played baccarat last week without stirring the faintest ripple of British criticism. Edward VII, by his adroit, indomitable stand, made his successors safe even from the Low Church, not to mention the worm-high Nonconformists...
...every technical respect except sound can compete with the best Hollywood product. U. S. spectators can understand it in spite of the German dialog, for the action of trench-warfare is pantomimic enough to be self-explanatory; they will find in it the nervous impact of unbearable physical horror. Comrades of 1918 is an argument against war and it points its theme less editorially than All Quiet on the Western Front, which may be. why the German nationalists did not ban it for home consumption as they did Carl Laemmle's picture. The framework is the friendship of four...
...recent "Radio Trial" in Moscow, Professor Leonid Ramzin and the other "counter revolutionaries" who confessed by the hour bore no marks of torture whatever and were certainly in possession of both hands. The power of the G. P. U. lies less in horror than in the infinite ramifications of its net of spies. Fathers and mothers can scarcely be sure that their own children, rosy-cheeked "Young Pioneers," are not household spies whose babbling to an older child will reach the G. P. U. If President Hoover knew as much about every U. S. citizen as Dictator Stalin knows...