Word: terrorisms
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...reaching Bucharest, M. Titulescu hurried to lunch with King Carol. Suddenly there were screams as of a man in mortal terror. Rushing to the window His Majesty & Guest saw a three-story scaffolding set up against the Royal Palace collapse, saw a workman mad with terror plunge to death...
Most anglers consider the trout a clever creature, cool, resourceful and important. Anglers are mistaken. Trout are nervous rather than intelligent. Only terror, causing them to dart and lurk, makes them fun to catch. Puzzled, dejected, perpetually alarmed by trifles, U. S. trout were unaware last week of a new book which materially increases the dangers of their station...
...then starting McClure's Magazine. Biographer Tarbell's Life of Abraham Lincoln, serialized, brought 150,000 subscribers to the magazine. Her History of the Standard Oil Co., also serialized, reverberated from trust to trust, rocked the whole U. S. When, in 1924, it was announced that "the terror of the trusts" was about to publish her biography of Elbert Gary, U. S. Steel tycoon, anticipations of juicy revelations ran high. They soon ran low when it was discovered that Gary was the hero, not the villain, of the book. She pictured Gary as the champion of "decent business...
...about him. He has frizzy grey hair, a beaklike nose down which his spectacles are always sliding. He hates fripperies. He never has been known to wear a new hat. He buys them from his friends when they are through with them. A clean piece of manuscript paper strikes terror to his heart. He writes his tunes on old scores or he may scuff on a piece of paper until it looks properly seasoned. He is quiet, courteous, scholarly. He lives in Bronxville, N. Y. where for him the event of last week was his 13-year-old daughter...
...They aimed to cause a reign of terror by menacing the existence of the Government and thus try to turn public attention to the necessity of entirely changing the present outlook on life. They sacrificed their lives for the nation as martyrs. We deeply regret and deplore the occurrence of the incident but feel that only a few Japanese today remain who are satisfied with existing conditions...