Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture of this new education has been convincingly drawn, it may strike terror into the hearts of the trustees, faculty and students of existing academic institutions. Perhaps they visualize the crumbling ivy-colored walls of old Holworthy Hall and their alma mater no longer required at a time when education has become the possession of all members of society. Let them have no fear. The University must remain--as a laboratory for the Lecture-Publisher
...Ancona and its district as many as 15 minor earthquake shocks were felt in one day. The tremors were persisting. Terror-stricken , people camped out in the open for days, suffered from the intense cold...
...Escampobar lived Citizen Scevola Bron, hysterical, jealous, ex-sansculotte, who mourned for the bloody days of the bygone Terror. The rightful mistress of the farm was lovely Arlette, whom the village thought half-demented -Scevola had saved her body from the massacre that exterminated her Royalist parents, but the memory of the shrieks and the blood of that massacre still walked like a ghost through her mind. Her aunt, the upright, deliberate, tireless Catherine, asserted her a doomed object of God's particular wrath, a fatal woman, not for any man's arms...
...Grand Guignol.* Manhattan had steeled itself too sternly against the advent of this reign of terror. The horrors failed to horrify. Accordingly those who came to cringe remained to scoff, and the opening was declared just another one of those things...
...fortunately this terror has been shortlived, for tonight's Transcript, in its leading news item, has revealed a very important fact which the CRIMSON reporter missed. The Transcript has found what the purpose of the Harvard Klan really is. Their program is not one of tar and feathers, neither are whipping parties for the assistant deans contemplated. "The main object of the Klan at Harvard is to institute compulsory chapel." This article has brought a vast amount of relief to Cambridge, for terrible as the prospect of compulsory chapel may be, yet it is mild compared with those things which...