Word: terrorisms
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...Shall We Join the Ladies" is a tense, well acted mystery, which gives the audience a taste of real drama. An atmosphere of superstition and terror is created at the outset by the discovery that 13 people are seated about the table. Mr. Clive, taking the role of host, entertains a group that he suspects to have had a hand in the hideous murdering of his brother. He puts them through a horrible evening, yet we know no more at the end than at the beginning. The whole act is merely to produce dramatic effect, and certainly is successful...
They are to race for the honor of their nations and the finest prize that the world offers. But ahead lies all the danger of the North and the terror of living burial in an unmarked frozen grave. They go to seek a land of vision, a continent that no one has yet beheld, peopled possibly, with an unknown race and covered with a strange vegetation...
...recent reports that a squad of Federal prohibition agents have been detailed to "dry up" Cambridge has evidently not struck terror to the hearts of at least one band of dealers in contraband goods. Those whom Dean Greenough has characterized as the "intellectual bootleggers" have once more made their appearance in Harvard Square with an entirely new line of surreptitious aids for the backward student. The old style of printed notes is evidently passe in the circles where such things are decreed and the very latest thing comes as a weekly magazine which "works while you rest...
Died. Federal District Judge John F McGee, 64; in Minneapolis, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Harassed by Prohibition problems, he said he feared for his mind. Known throughout the Northwest as the "bootleggers' terror," he, upon one occasion, sentenced 112 offenders in three hours, collected $33,700 from them in fines...
...Hungary's frontiers. His alleged insolent attitude toward the Kaiser and the shelling of the Imperial train were unnecessary acts; and the royal state in which he now lives has firmly impressed upon a large percentage of the Hungarian people that the cavalry Admiral Inquisitioner of the White Terror, the Protestant apostate (he embraced Roman Catholicism when he became Regent, ''not unmindful," say some, "of the Hungarian basic law" which, limits succession to the throne to Roman Catholics") is not only a traitor to his King, but a man deserving the utmost contempt from the country...