Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extorted, the outrage so committed would cast its shadow forward across many chapters of the future history of the British Empire!'' Mr. Baldwin is again with the King at the snuggery from 6:15 to 7:30. Says Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, in mortal terror lest the Irish Free State make whatever solution is reached an excuse for secession: "Trust Mr. Baldwin...
...lost in the transference, much of the depth and background of the characters' lives has been sacrificed in favor of the more melodramatic happenings of the book. There is no denying, however, that some of the political characterizations, the mob scenes, the insolent brutality of armed ruffians, the gripping terror but persistent courage of the Jessup family become realities in the mind of the spectator...
Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll are the couple who gratify the terror-hungry spectators with the highly embarrassing jams they get into. It's all the outcome of Madeleine's getting started on the wrong side. To please her flabby, moribund father (Porter Hall), she agrees, in bitter conflict with the latent notability, in her, to lure Gary and his belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife...
Meantime, Science was of little avail last week to 40,000 terror-stricken inhabitants of Western Oregon where forest fires raging in the parched timberland were whipped down to the coast by high winds. Fire completely destroyed Bandon (pop. 1,500), burned parts of De Poe Bay and Myrtle Point, menaced a half-dozen other small communities and 400,000 acres of timber, including some of the famed redwoods of Northern California. In Bandon, where practically all buildings were razed, a dozen bodies were recovered. One man was killed clearing wreckage, some 30 others were missing...
...over Woodbridge, Hungarian housewives were soon gabbling in terror. According to the New York Times, doors and windows were locked & barred. The Times reported that Mrs. Czinkota had been observed to "change herself into a horse and walk on her hind legs," and that she had also caused "horns to appear on her head." The New York Post, too, printed a special dispatch from Woodbridge. The Postman heard a woman say that one night she had seen the witch "dressed in the skin of an animal, with a stream of fire over her head." The New York Sun reported...