Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devastating effect of the tabloids on public morals is shown by Beulah Stevenson in her "Purity," wherein are seen two horror-stricken women, drunk with the joy of morbidity. The headlines are not omitted, typical of the close-to-home-and-nature moralizing of the whole exhibit's soapbox eloquence...
Conscious of their good intentions the Baldwins stayed, went among the stricken families. To one Mr. Button, two of whose miner sons were killed by the explosion, Premier Baldwin said: "I have come to see you as man to man-not as Prime Minister. I feel very sorry for you in your great loss." Meantime Mrs. Baldwin held Mrs. Button's hand, urged Mrs. Button from the fervor of her own faith to seek consolation in prayer...
Window Panes. Nothing is so utterly glum as misery in Russia or so inscrutable. An intimate glimpse into a peasant household reveals a husband who slashes a great deal with his whip, a wife who suffers commensurately, a son stricken dumb. Comes an escaped convict with Love in his heart. He tarries awhile in this hovel of Muscovite anguish to bring light into the souls of the people, and by token of a dusted window, into the room, the main scene of sorrow. Apparently, this constitutes a symbol. It is in the same vein as the Servant in the House...
...Peggy Wood, a maid passing fair, plays the daughter sold to a miser. But she has her consolation-a ruddy ragged redcoat, Captain Bragdon (Gavin Gordon). Who shall cast the first stone when he, disguised as a corpse and wheeled into the boudoir by the order of the fear-stricken husband himself, comes to life and love? Certainly not hearty, round-bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney Greenstreet) who engineered the titillating situation and kept the audience chuckling while he explained the young wife's earnest efforts, in the next room, to quicken the corpse. His double-meanings, the play...
...surgeon, white-robed and with immaculate gloves and instruments, must probe and lay bare the infections of the flesh, that it may be sterilized and heal. Recently, at the height of the Browning-Peaches orgy of pornography (TIME, Feb. 7), conscience-stricken editors tried hypocritically to explain that in probing into the sex life of a babbitt-Iecher they were acting as "surgeons to the public mind." The false hypocrisy of this excuse appeared, last week...