Word: terrorisms
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...late, sumptuously-mustached Grand Duke Cyril, who in 1924 proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and died in 1938. Grand Duke Vladimir's mother was a German Princess of Saxe-Coburg. He was born in Finland, where his parents had fled to escape the Red terror, attended London University, is now supposedly in Paris, where he has long been considered an admirer of Adolf Hitler...
...message fairly bristling with indignant phrases, condemning the German Government in scornful terms for last month's "ruthless sinking" of the freighter Robin Moor. The President spoke of "'the act of an international outlaw . . . policy of frightfulness and intimidation . . . conquest based upon lawlessness and terror on land and piracy on the sea. . . ." But the message did not call for a declaration of war. It did not call for any specific action...
This cinemadaptation of Novelist Geoffrey Household's best-selling Rogue Male is a superb thriller. Loaded with excitement, suspense and terror, it is a happy joining of a wonderfully workmanlike script by Dudley Nichols with talented direction by Fritz Lang and first-rate acting by Mr. Pidgeon, George Sanders, Joan Bennett, John Carradine...
...been lanced, Bernard Shaw said, "by a million bayonets." World War I ended in revolution in Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary. From Russia the wave of the future threatened to engulf Europe as it later engulfed Germany under the Nazis. The Bolsheviks fighting on six fronts began a systematic terror that bagged some 3,000,000 victims in six years, while hungry ravens forced themselves through the boarded glassless windows of Moscow's Hotel...
...Germany the Bavarian Soviet toppled, while little girls of 12 solicited openly on the Alexanderplatz, and in the dead of nights, whose terror exceeded anything known in the U.S. since Indian days, good citizens heard the shuffle of marching feet and voices singing...