Word: terrorisms
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...Walska, charming wife of Harold McCormick, famed more for her wish to sing than for any actual singing. Many a manager has announced Wisher Walska, many an audience has been disappointed until newsmen have denied her a voice and she herself has pleaded stagefright. Evidently the microphone held less terror than a sea of faces for Wisher Walska sang over the radio last week as scheduled, prettily, quaveringly, the "Dich teure Halle" from Tannhauser, Giordoni's Coro Mio Ben, and "Daddy's Sweetheart" by Liza Lehmann...
...newsreel of the fighting that went on in the mud and rain in 1916 and 1917. Unlike those recent films of battle in which the courage and good-nature of the protagonists made war seem a rather admirable, phenomenal cradle of heroes, The Somme is full of death and terror, last cigarets puffed on the ground, bodies, the conquered and the conquering, piled indifferently together. Best shot: a lonely piper, making death musical for a Canadian regiment...
...While mingling with his people, incognito, one night last week, the Shah of Persia was assaulted by ruffians, who fled in screaming terror when his dirty cloak flew open and revealed the jeweled orders blazing on his breast...
Female bandits like Two-Gun Tittle and Kangaroo Kate conduct a reign of terror in Greenwich Village whilst a more charming female looks into the murder of her revivalist uncle...
...little yapping terrier bitch of Edward of Wales, † whined disconsolately by day, all last week, and howled eerily by night. Servants at H. R. H.'s bachelor quarters in York House, London, could not quite shake off uneasy qualms aroused by the dog's palpable terror and grief. Suppose, just suppose the little bitch knew, with feminine intuition, that her master would never return. Absurd-yet Master Wales had set out, last week, to journey a long way away-to South & East Africa...