Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notoriety that attended the disappearance of Miss Frances Smith. Embraced by rumor and the zealous press, that institution has been unusually subject to the stupidities that characterize such attentions. "Alumnae want to know," the letter states, "Whether it is true that there has been a 'reign of terror' on the campus and whether, as has been said, twenty-six other girls have disappeared." Denying categorically that the college is a hot bed of radicalism, atheism, and immorality, the bulletin says further, "It is apparent that current magazines and daily papers are at present subjecting all colleges to sharp and often...
PORGY?A Negro troupe giving the turbulent details of love, terror, and swift laughter of native life along the Charleston docks. (TIME...
...between the spectres and the condemned woman, even the gratuitous insult to the memory of the dead actor, fade into insignificance compared to the manner in which the tale is told. Here is the printing press used not for the dissemination of knowledge but for the spreading of blind terror and superstitions resorting not to mere vulgarity but taking a malicious advantage of ignorance and credulity. For one assumes that these editors are acquainted with their public, and have no intention of making themselves ridiculous in the eyes of their readers. If this assumption is correct, no excuse whatever...
Banqueters looked at each other with amazement and terror. "Beedy is rash and foolish," said several. Others cried: "Beedy is right!" All agreed that his remarks, as transmitted through many a radio set into many a cozy sitting room, would rouse wide comment of approval or annoyance. Next morning they asked their friends who had been "listening in" what reaction Mr. Beedy's words had aroused. "What did he talk about?" said the friends. Banqueters soon learned that, considering his remarks too controversial for radio consumption, Christopher Bohnsack, director of WNYC, Manhattan municipal radio station, had turned a switch...
...death of four persons; needless to say one of the four persons is the heroine and needless to say the hero, a young newspaper reporter, rescues her from the disastrous embraces. Before this happens there have been many moments when watchers, in an agony of excitement, have twisted their terror into laughter. The hero is merrily played by Edmund Lowe, the heroine charmingly by Leila Hyams, the "Thing" effectively imitated by one George Kotsonaros...