Word: bogeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activity in the United States does offer a threat to domestic tranquillity which requires careful attention, it does not follow that any price, no matter how high, should be paid to remove this danger. Political freedom is no empty trinket to exchange for peace of mind over the Bolshevik bogey. The tactics of the New York City police in recent handling of the communist problem indicate no inclination to stop short of thorough supression and persecution. When New York industrialists apply to the police for information to enable them to throw communist employees out of work the scene takes...
...What is that which is fourfooted, three-footed and two-footed?" That horrendous bogey, the ancient Theban Sphinx, who had the face of a woman, the feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird, ate up the Thebans who could not guess her riddle.* Smart Oedipus answered her: Man, who goes on allfours as a baby, on two legs as an adult, on two legs and a cane in old age. Whereupon the vexed Sphinx threw herself from a mountain...