Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thesis" lay beside his body when it was discovered last week. Excerpt: "Surely there can be no good reason for going on and maiming honest people just to eke out a living. To me general practice was just a life of mayhem and murder. ... I am not at all afraid of Death. Death is an old friend...
Nine years ago, in a play of mine in rehearsal in the Lyric Theatre in London, the time was supposed to change from the present to 1783, during a blackout. We were afraid the audience wouldn't believe in this. So Professor Wood installed for us, against the theatre's back wall, one organ pipe, height circa 40 ft., the biggest pipe that could be carted through traffic and in the stage door. Its purpose was kept a mystery. Wood's idea was that the lowest of all notes, subaudible, but vibrating the eardrum, would produce...
...Afraid to forge ahead without Russia and thus leave her legally free to continue Soviet aid to the Leftists, Chamberlain's mouthpiece, the Earl of Plymouth, subcommittee chairman, dumped the plan back in the Prime Minister's lap and postponed the session until this week. Meanwhile, Mr. Chamberlain will try not very hopefully to win Moscow's acceptance...
...Senator Royal S. Copeland, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Esquire's new offspring, Ken, etc. Moreover, they are fully aware that it will do them no good to support democratic institutions unless they can get other parties to play ball with them. Since other parties are still afraid of openly accepting Communist allies, U. S. Communists ingratiatingly offer to withhold their own candidates from 1938 Congressional. State and local elections if other tickets present progressive nominees...
...nigsberg two months ago Chancellor Hitler thundered that "there will be no more shooting against German racial comrades along the German borders." Since then Czechoslovakians have been afraid that some Czech frontier guard, policeman or soldier would lose his head and kill one of the little nation's 3,200,000 Sudeten Germans who inhabit the frontier strip along the 1,300-mile Czech-German border. One night last week, with the blatant Nazi sub-minority of the Sudeten German Minority indulging in a terroristic and propaganda campaign in preparation for municipal elections to be held at week...