Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to the "Fair Refugees" letter of E. P. Waterman (TIME, March 13), I should like to know if he and his friends are natives of New York City. If so, they can't be afraid of the out-of-town friends who may call them up for they have probably never been farther from home than Philadelphia...
Perhaps they come from Iowa or Arkansas and are afraid their old acquaintances will look them up and discover they aren't the big shots they have claimed to be. ... I would suggest that E. P. Waterman & friends not only campaign for the San Francisco Exposition but go themselves. The trip across the U.S. would open their eyes to the grandeur of this country and they would be amazed at the friendly spirit existing in the West...
These speeches were loudly cheered by some 500 guests. Many of the doctors invited found the advances of Publisher Gannett crude, stayed home. And the majority of Manhattan physicians, congenitally afraid of politics, and little under standing the practical meaning of planned medicine or the motives of those for and against it, went about their business, bliss fully ignorant of the whole affair...
...alternatives for Germany's future: "Hitler may lie down and digest for a bit--he's sailed pretty close to the wind, you know ... or, what I'm most afraid of is that Germany may be like a man on a bicycle if he stops moving he'll have to jump off." Also, he said, the Nazis would face an intolerable situation if they have to "jump off" because of the difficulty in converting their nation from a wartime to a peacetime economy...
...characteristic bit of Butlerese: "If there is another war I intend to make James Roosevelt go to the front line trenches. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, and if his father starts up this war business I am going to see that he does. I am not afraid! Let them shoot me! I'm all through. Let's get shot here at home if we're going to be shot...