Word: terrors
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...countries he has visited. His professional standing gave him entrance into the narems of some of the Eastern potentates. In travelling through Africa, Korea, and China, Dr. Smith earned the gratitude of many of the natives by exterminating lions and tigers that were constantly a source of terror to the inhabitants of isolated villages. In a word, he knows the jungles and deserts and can make his hearers feel their charm...
...countries he has visited. His professional standing gave him entrance into the harems of some of the Eastern potentates. In traveling through Africa, Korea, and China, Dr. Smith earned the gratitude of many of the natives by exterminating lions and tigers that were constantly a source of terror to the inhabitants of isolated villages. In a word, he knows the jungle and desert and can make his hearers feel their charm...
Homer's anthropomorphism caused the gods to dominate the life of the Greeks. Consider, for instance, the supersititious terror about the mutilation of the Hermes, the Eleusinian mysteries, etc. The "Milesian Spirit" in the Iliad is illustrated by the numerous battles between the gods favorable to the Greeks and those favorable to the Trojans, and by the marriage between Zeus and Hera, often called the trickery of Zeus...
...Rivera '09, a native Porto Rican, acted the complicated role of Don Narciso to perfection. His boasting over-bearance when he first receives the bouquets, his terror-stricken surprise as the pretended husbands challenge him to duel, and his laughing submission when he finally sees that the joke is on him were realistically performed. M. H. Woolman sC. made a capital Don Ramon, successfully taking the audience into his confidence when he turned the joke on Don Narciso, and indulged in unrestrained laughter...
Professor de Sumichrast's last lecture on "Paris during the Reign of Terror" was given in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening. The subject was "The Peregrinations of the Guillotine." Professor Sumichrast began by explaining the various ways in which the old monarchical government inflicted the death penalty. The invention of the guillotine, which in some analogous form had already been used in Germany and in Scotland, happened to coincide with the outbreak of the Revolution, and was not a consequence of that movement. But it was certainly singular that the invention should have taken place at that particular time...