Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proclaimed their membership in a "Society of the Godless"; mocked at school assembly prayers.) ". . . Whether or not professional evangelism has any future, pastoral evangelism has a great future and personal evangelism a greater one. . . ." (In Chicago, Professional Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson told her life story; raised hell for the terror of sinners; filled her heaven with the fresh ululations of 500 new "converts" and her suitcase with fractional currency; went shopping for pretty wearing apparel...
Republican Rome had its Slave Revolt, sixteen century Europe its Peasant Uprisings, the turn of the nineteenth century its Red Terror, and contemporary Western civilization its Third inter-national. The first three were perpetual nightmares to the conservative mind in their respective periods. The last is rapidly becoming...
There are few sounds as ominously suggestive of the passing of time as the regular tramp of feet. Guilty men hear in it the approaching minions of the law and in their terror rush to confess. The imaginative are reminded of tortured spirits to whom death has not meant peace The nervous fidget. Proctors who are in the habit of taking their morning constitutional in the aisles of the examination room ought to be reminded that many men are faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative...
Tongue Gouged. At Mexico City a leading newspaper, Excelsior, reported the "Calles terror" as hysterically as it had flayed "Coolidge hypocrisy" the day before. Cried an editorial...
Then just as he is about to try again the underworld river, which everybody knows flows under that part of Cambridge, begins to seep through the cracks in the floor and the distinguished gathering retreats in terror...