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...about half the 110,000 strikers to return to work, but in London the Laborite Daily Herald pertinently exclaimed: "Had the Nationalists [Cantonese] done this, what a cry of horror and indignation would have been raised in this country, what a call for strong action! But this 'white terror's' victims are only trades unionists, so the author is 'the defender of Shanghai' to British Tories...
...cage with Nuti. Aldo Nuti aims carefully and shoots, not the tiger, but the Nestoroff. The tiger tears him apart. Gubbio cranks on until someone fires pointblank through the bars into the tiger's ear. He thereby achieves perfection as a cinematograph operator. Emotionless? Oh, no. His suppressed terror strikes him dumb forever after. But except when he thinks of the fierce, innocent tiger's death, he has peace...
While at Walden, Thoreau proved that individual men may overcome wild creature's instinctive fear of humanity. Birds and beasts showed no terror of him and it has been said by enthusiasts that the very fish of the stream would swim unafraid between his fingers...
...proclaimed their membership in a "Society of the Godless"; mocked at school assembly prayers.) ". . . Whether or not professional evangelism has any future, pastoral evangelism has a great future and personal evangelism a greater one. . . ." (In Chicago, Professional Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson told her life story; raised hell for the terror of sinners; filled her heaven with the fresh ululations of 500 new "converts" and her suitcase with fractional currency; went shopping for pretty wearing apparel...
Republican Rome had its Slave Revolt, sixteen century Europe its Peasant Uprisings, the turn of the nineteenth century its Red Terror, and contemporary Western civilization its Third inter-national. The first three were perpetual nightmares to the conservative mind in their respective periods. The last is rapidly becoming...