Word: vandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nowadays a mystery play is heralded by any title which suggests the horrible. Each plot contains an animal more terrible than the last. Bats, spiders, gorillas have been successful in providing thrills, and to them is added the octopus, the slimy vandal of the underseas. As the object of these beasts is to freeze the audience into that state of terror which precedes death and renders impossible thought, more and more frightful titles may be daily expected. Pithicanthropus erectus may soon overawe the spectators, or perhaps a pterodactyle; at the denouement they could, with customary plausibility, be found traveling salesmen...
...50th anniversary of his ordination (1918), also, the presence of the diamond-studded handle to another chalice, the gold cross of Archbishop Curley's chain, his watch, and $90 in currency. These things were not, as they should have been, inside the safe. A thief or vandal had "jimmied" its door and taken them away...
...Lihme, retired zinc man (TIME, July 11), a Manhattan judge last week sentenced one John Healy to a prison term of one and one-half to three years. But, said the judge, the New York Legislature could not have foreseen, when it framed the state law on vandalism, such a spectacular achievement as Vandal Healy's with bone and bottles. The vandalism law, said the judge, should be stiffened to protect art owners. One George Tiernan, drinking companion of Vandal Healy during his onslaught in the Lihme apartment, was discharged by the court, having been cleared, by Vandal Healy...
...Huang, the second objective of his journey, where lie the caves of the Thousand Buddhas. The aspect of these ancient gods fills Mr. Werner with poetic reverence. However, "obviously, some specimens of these paintings must be secured for study at home, and, more important still, for safekeeping against further vandalism." For Mr. Warner makes it plain that the ignornt keepers of the chapel and the ignorant natives of the neighborhood are guilty of constant, unconscious vandalism against these ancient works of art. After witnessing with a shudder the desecration of the images by greasy hands and modern mud-daubed restorations...
When members of the Memorial Association heard that Borglum had smashed his models, they declared that it was "the act of a hoodlum, a vandal." They filed suit against him for $50,000, issued a warrant for his arrest, charged him with committing a malicious mischief. The constables of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia were furnished descriptions of mustachioed, baldheaded, large-eared Borglum and Accessory Tucker. The hunt began, continued for two days. Excited loafers from the depot declared that a man of Borglum's kind had boarded a train for Cincinnati; a garage keeper...