Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elephant towing an automobile is the most grotesque shot. Horror is furnished by a picture of the self-inflicted tortures of fanatics at a celebrated shrine. Scenes along the crowded city streets supply good relief from the animals...
...leaves the country station where he has been doing odd jobs, goes back to Moscow to take up life again. More than half the picture deals with his efforts to understand the new times. Fragment of an Empire is a description of a tremendous inspiration created out of horror, vivid and affecting because its theatre is personal. The hope and the horror, since they are not separated by the consciousness of what has happened in between, make...
Doctors came running from consulting rooms, halted in horror. The 40 children, writhing in agony, their eyes burnt black, were blinded for life. The ignorant orderlies had filled the eye-sprays not with boric acid solution, but with a concentrated solution of silver nitrate kept for the treatment of infectious eye diseases...
...then for kingdoms, then for women. When a clever little boy finds out that the dice are loaded, the news comes as a call to arms and a whole state rises furiously to march on the palace of King Sohat, the crooked shooter. Punctuating these absurdities are scenes of horror involving poisoned arrows, cobras and a few fine pictures-these almost justifying the silly story-of what India is like. Best shot: 8,000 elephant...
Just before Christmas a little white dog whimpered in a St. Louis alley. A woman approached it, found it scrawny and starving, suddenly noticed to her horror that its lips were sewn together with heavy cord. The Humane Society of Missouri was notified. Robert F. Sellar, secretary of the society, declared last week that he had gone to the dog and instantly put it to death. From all over the country, incensed humanitarians wired promises of reward to him who should find the torturer. Last week the rewards totaled $3,000, not including a $500 reward which the Humane Society...