Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impartial critics have pronounced the Puleston expose of "Horn" able, fully documented, damning. An elderly iconoclast with a penetrating, devil-take-the-prudes outlook, Dr. Puleston does not hesitate to say privately that the horror in which most whites hold "going native" has no scientific basis. As a physician, as one who has "gone," as a practical businessman who lived for many years in a community where every white man had a pitch black Congo woman, Dr. Puleston has stated that such a relation did not appear to harm either health or mentality. Whether it harmed morals he considers...
Since 1906 pellagra has been a horror to the South. In the springtime it strikes people whose winter diet has been confined too closely to corn and pork. The first symptoms: dizziness, headaches, diarrhoea, painful skin rash...
Whistling blithely one Giuseppe Carmagnola, Roman garbage collector, drove his cart round the corner of the Church of San Marco Maggiore last week, descended to empty a garbage can. To his horror he saw three fragments of the Sacred Host negligently tossed among the garbage...
...many people think. The trouble is that in the fighting ring whenever a man's lips start to bleed, his opponent's glove spreads the stain all over his body, with the result that he looks like a slaughter house. Then the women throw up their hands in horror and say that boxing is a brutal sport, even at that they seem to be getting over the feeling a little...
...This piece shows how men, trapped under water in a wrecked submarine, behave. The crew of the 513 comes back from shore leave, goes to sea. The 513 is sunk. They have enough air to live about five hours. At first their imminent fate is merely an unthinkable horror, remote and impersonal: it becomes human and tragic because, as time passes, in the manner in which each man faces or avoids the thought of what is coming his nature is made clear. There is Pollack who goes crazy and is shot. There is the ensign in command, a little fellow...