Word: terrors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meteorological cataclysms were the terror of Blennerhassett's life. At the approach of thunderstorms, he bolted all the windows, buried himself in bed. Consequently, he built his island home of wood "to resist earthquakes." A noble edifice with two spacious wings, its lawns and gardens were as fine as any in England. Inside, "foreign frescoes colored the ceilings, the walls were hung with costly pictures, and the furniture, imported from Paris and London, was rich, costly and tasteful." The dining room sideboard offered a hospitality as fine as could be found in Virginia, for Blennerhassett Island, discovered by Surveyor...
Professor Langer spoke vigorously about his personal experiences and feelings during the last war, remarking that the sight of striken areas from which a terror-ridden civilian populace had to be evacuated made the ghastliness of war most apparant. Every man in his organization decided at the end of the war that he "would have nothing to do with war" in the future. The paradoxical rise and power of organizations like the American Legion he traced to psychological causes, such as the tendency to remember only the pleasant things, and to forget or gloss over the more horrible aspects...
...Catfish Row bows before death, keening and shrieking its laments, tossing coins into a saucer to assure a burial safe from medical students. Gershwin's choruses are richly eloquent then, as they are later on when a hurricane shivers the tenements and the Negroes herd together like terror-stricken savages, hearing what they think is God. knocking at the door. Critics roundly approved such moments which had the surge of a powerful musical drama. But :here were bristling arguments over many of the set songs for which Gershwin's brother Ira helped write lyrics. A lullaby called Summer...
...played a bacchanalian love ditty on his fiddle while Poppea was seducing his chief minister: Ever since the Huns invaded the sacred area of Montmartre in the seventies, Marianne has suspected the lusty Max of evil intentions. And with the advent of Hitler, those suspicions have changed into horrified terror...
Equipped with appallingly threadbare dialog, Storm over the Andes gives a curious impression (except for the airplanes) of having been made 20 years ago when Cinemactor Moreno was matching wits with the Hooded Terror and other hobgoblins of the old serials...