Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terror over Barcelona. If Madrid was enthusiastic last week Barcelona was delirious with popular excesses as its Anarchists, Syndicalists and Communists drove President Luis Companys of their autonomous Catalonia nearly frantic...
...episodes of Catalogue together, but most of the book is given over to candid, unlovely but often grimly humorous portraits of the natives-Spike, the mean taxidriver; Shannon, the old postmaster, who is almost the only humane figure in the lot; the unfaithful bride, whose lover is in terror of her husband's shotgun; old Double S. Winston, the banker, who puts down extravagant plans for a sewer system; a rich Indian named Eagle Catoosa...
...Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment was turned on full blast last week to announce such absurdities as that Russia's army had been increased to 9,000,000 men. In a Goebbels frenzy the Nazi Press screamed with page-wide headlines that "under the curse of the Marxist terror Spain is today being converted into a desert!" and that Stalin's hordes are thirsting to make Germany a barren waste. Neutral correspondents noted that while joy was the German reaction last year when the Treaty of Versailles was torn up and the Fatherland given a one-year conscript...
...thirst for blood seems unquenchable. They kill for the mere sake of killing. They break into homes, throw all furniture, books and pictures out of the windows, pile them up and set fire to them. They are animated by a love of destruction and death. The present reign of terror and massacre in Barcelona bears no resemblance to any ordinary conception of revolution or civil war. I was held in jail for three days because they thought I looked like a German-those Barcelona radicals have an intense hatred of all Germans and Italians. They won't let either...
...Giannini had quietly grown into a unique relationship with the cinema industry. Cut out to be a doctor, he took his M.D. at the University of California, doctored 6,000 Negro troops stationed at San Francisco's Presidio during the Spanish-American War, worked day & night through the terror of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, nearly died of typhus. Meanwhile Brother Amadeo's bank, having been demolished in the earthquake, moved into Attilio's house. When he recovered from typhus, Attilio became manager and vice president of Bank of Italy's first branch...