Word: terrorisms
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...missed on any excuse. At times the human side of the war is stressed--the droll "Tommies", the clamorous market-place the mock rebellion of the Irish youngsters, and the peace and beauty of the open fields These details serve only to silhouette more sharply the brooding terror of the rebellion. Sudden death is the backdrop for all the scenes, and always it is threatening to fall down on the players. There is enough martial noise and clank to satisfy the most blood-thirsty, but some other element makes the movie great...
...behind the witchcraft of Salem, Miss Winwar proceeds to enlighten and embellish their horror as well as their beauty with the result that the spirit of the times is once more captured and the reader can more easily understand the forces at work to create such a reign of terror. The hatred and intolerance of the straight-laced but hypocritical Puritans with their cast iron moral codes and their frigid attitude is set in striking contrast with the loyalty, the courage, and the affection of their brothers. The narrowness and prejudice of the Puritan mind is shown in a psychological...
...companion picture, "The Hory Terror" is a foolish little comedy staring Jane Withers--that pudgy young she-devil. If it does nothing else, it explains Freddie Bartholomew's preference for Shirley Temple...
...Yellow Cruise" is the acme of the travelogue. This pictorial account of the third Citroen-Haardt-Audouin-Dubreuil Asiatic Expedition is not content to edify with its splendid scenes of the exotic, but succeeds in giving to the collection a unity and a thrilling dramatic punch, involving both terror and beauty...
...something huge and vague and sinister. He dodged that fight, paid his forfeit. Jack Dempsey was ready to fight last week because a dauntless little man with a brown mustache had come forward to champion him and thousands upon thousands of reputable New York businessmen who had been similarly terrorized and mulcted. The new champion was Thomas Edmund Dewey, 34, for 18 months the head and heart of New York City's famed Dewey racket investigation. Tweed to Walker, Ever since the State Legislature in 1853 stripped police-appointing powers from the city's Common Council (called...