Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forsyth, Mo., a Shetland pony, panic-stricken, plunged into the flooding White River. His pasture-mate, a mule, turned back from high ground and safety; plunged after, dragged the pony ashore by the mane...
...wrong and proved his statements with forceful examples. "It can not be conscience that determines this difference," he went on, "for that is merely a state of mind and varies with the institutions of a community. It a Turkish woman is seen on the streets unveiled she is conscience stricken, but this is not the case with young girls in America. People are constantly adjusting themselves to innovations. You even get used to thinking of short dressess, I've gotten so that I' look at girls' faces again...
...distant wilderness. A hungry native, coming by chance upon a bowl of plantains or beetle larvae or some such delicacy, had thanked his tutelar deity for the good fortune and had dined with gusto. But his gastronomic joy was short-lived. A few hours later, a horror stricken fellow tribesman informed him that he had violated tabu, that he had eaten of the dish destined for the alimentation of his holiness the king. The news struck he poor victim like a charge of the Four Horsemen. He turned pale. His knees shook. He seemed visibly to wither away. Shortly...
...Mass of Life" and "Appalachia." Later he set Poet James Elroy Flecker's Hassan to music and the splendors of "The Golden Road to Samarkand" filled the Haymarket Theatre for months on end. Sometimes he hears great orchestras playing his music-over the radio. Mostly he lies lonely, stricken, and what is worse, neglected...
Dispelling the thought that Hollywood is immoral and vice-stricken, Mr. Lyon said. "If an actor in Hollywood gets inebriated every paper in the country prints it in large headlines. How ever, here in Boston, where drunks are seen every night on the street, no one seems to hear of it. The papers delight in disparaging Hollywood...