Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SILENT HOUSE-The horrible history of a big Chinese terror and torture man (TIME...
...second time when they went out. The first scrutiny was the more satisfactory. Artist Poole had put the actress against a dark background, wrapped her in a black cape, painted her hands brown, thin and nervous. Her face looked out from all this gloom with the terror of a child's half-dream in the dark. Nonetheless, the characterization was too taut and theatrical...
...contemplate. More ghastly here, perhaps, than in any other mystery play this season. As acted by a goodly troupe including Helen Chandler, heroine, Alan Dinehart, hero, and Clarke Silvernail, Chinese servant, they wring frightened yelps from a trembling audience. Mr. Silvernail's drolleries help to relieve tension at terror stricken moments. On the way home spectators can be heard boasting they didn't believe a word...
Morning came. We wanted breakfast. "Holloa! Holloa!" we called to our porters. No answer. We looked about us--not a striped tie. We used powerful glasses--not a club-carrying guide in sight. Crazed with terror by the strange surroundings, they had fled while we slept. What...
...onetime Hungarian Minister of Finance, retired sugar merchant, launched into journalism at Vienna and wrote a series of articles attacking Count Stephen Bethlen, then as now the reactionary Prime Minister of Hungary, but at that time grappling desperately to establish his government. Count Bethlen's was a "White Terror" as opposed to the previous "Red Terror" of Hungarian Communists under the notorious Bela...