Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public notice with the recent account by Waldo Frank and his fellow writers of their treatment by Kentucky citizens. Entirely aside from the question of right or wrong in the coal fields, the action taken by Kentucky in attempting to suppress all investigation of the rumored regain of terror in its coal counties touches on the problem of freedom of the press. Whether the courts and citizens of a state are wise in attempting to defy this principle can be shown by the results in this instance...
Almost a thousand miles from Manchuria, in the sprawling, river-muddied harbor of Shanghai, greatest port in all the Orient, lay Admiral Koichi Shiosawa with eleven warships. One of them was the newest type of marine terror, the aircraft carrier Kaga, nestling 60 airplanes on her vast weird deck, smoke pouring out from her strange horizontal funnel...
...candle-lit surgery in London, Dr. Jekyll brews broth of Hell, gulps down his potation, and with many a phthisical cough turns into "Mr. 'Ide," the terror of Limehouse. In Germany, Bavarian merrymaking is stilled as Frankenstein's monster stalks abroad. And somewhere in the English countryside, Count Dracula pushes up his mouldering coffin-lid, flicks the gravedirt from his shoulders, and adjusts his cravat for a pleasant evening...
...thought the Japanese invasion had begun. There are no cellars to hide in in Shanghai (any hole three feet deep strikes water), so they rushed for the International Settlement. The engineer of the Shanghai-Hangchow express heard the explosion of the munitions launch some miles outside the city. In terror he ran the train on a siding, uncoupled the locomotive himself and ran back to Shanghai leaving his passengers stranded...
Berthed for $5,000 aboard the S. S. Monwai from New Zealand, Phar Lap (Senegalese for "Wink of the Sky"), the "red terror" of the Australian turf, arrived last week in San Francisco. A long-limbed chestnut gelding, Phar Lap (son of Night Raid, English horse, and out of Entreaty, New Zealand mare) has won 32 out of 42 races and $267,675 prize money in Australia. He was taken to Heather Stock Farm near San Francisco for conditioning before being sent to Agua Caliente to race in the $50,000 handicap there in March...