Word: terrorisms
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...between the spectres and the condemned woman, even the gratuitous insult to the memory of the dead actor, fade into insignificance compared to the manner in which the tale is told. Here is the printing press used not for the dissemination of knowledge but for the spreading of blind terror and superstitions resorting not to mere vulgarity but taking a malicious advantage of ignorance and credulity. For one assumes that these editors are acquainted with their public, and have no intention of making themselves ridiculous in the eyes of their readers. If this assumption is correct, no excuse whatever...
Banqueters looked at each other with amazement and terror. "Beedy is rash and foolish," said several. Others cried: "Beedy is right!" All agreed that his remarks, as transmitted through many a radio set into many a cozy sitting room, would rouse wide comment of approval or annoyance. Next morning they asked their friends who had been "listening in" what reaction Mr. Beedy's words had aroused. "What did he talk about?" said the friends. Banqueters soon learned that, considering his remarks too controversial for radio consumption, Christopher Bohnsack, director of WNYC, Manhattan municipal radio station, had turned a switch...
...inaudible and exciting music, the bright statues began a fantastically deliberate ballet through the squares of the chessboard. The pawns stepped forward with a delicate terror; the rooks swept furiously, in straight lines, across the spaces, and the bishops slanted with slow dexterity between the stiff irregular maneuvers of the knights. Soon there were fewer dancers in the ballet; two sinister queens pranced among them with precise cruelty. The music to which they moved grew faint and there were long periods in which the figurines stood still and the two men stared at the board with a contemplative fury. Finally...
...death of four persons; needless to say one of the four persons is the heroine and needless to say the hero, a young newspaper reporter, rescues her from the disastrous embraces. Before this happens there have been many moments when watchers, in an agony of excitement, have twisted their terror into laughter. The hero is merrily played by Edmund Lowe, the heroine charmingly by Leila Hyams, the "Thing" effectively imitated by one George Kotsonaros...
...Secondly," remarked Dr. Holmes, "the Bolsheviki saved the Revolution. This, in the eyes of many people, is the one great crime of the Bolsheviki, but if it were not for them, the Czar and all his train would have returned and a White Terror would have resulted to make the Red Terror look like a kindergarten game. There would have been a civil war against the peasants to regain land innumerable pogroms against the Jews, and the worst tyranny in modern history would have been restored. For what the Bolsheviki did all posterity will thank them...