Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are intelligent and offensive methods of school visiting. If you go to school to check on your child's progress ... do not embarrass him by talking about him before others. . . . Going to school to criticize is fraught with danger. ... It should never be done on one's first visit. . . . No matter what our motives are for visiting the school, the canons of good taste should govern the call...
...married a Chilean, "Gabriella, the daughter of Don Francisco Jose de la Balmondiere," took her on a honeymoon, part of which was a trip by wagon and horseback from San Antonio, Tex. to Mexico City. In 1879 this journey took 50 days and the travelers were in constant danger of Indian attacks. Cunninghame Graham taught fencing in Mexico City, returned to the cattle business in South America, learned when his father died in 1884 that debts on the estate amounted to more than ?100,000. It took him ten years to pay everything...
...Elis held for downs, and kicked out of danger. This time, however, a determined series of rushes, ending with the Kelly-Houghton pass, drew the first blood. The extra point was missed...
...Straight from the Shoulder", the companion piece, contains such soul stirring situations as the resentment of a boy at his father's second marriage, and the danger a good citizen faces when be points out gangsters to the police...
...Canal, in addition to being very expensive and practically useless, might well be a positive danger to established industries. The position taken by the President in this instance cannot be regarded favorably, for there can be little doubt as to the motivating force behind the sudden revival of a program long fancied by Mr. Roosevelt. Indeed, the whole conduct of the affair smacks too much of a spoiled child deprived of a cherished plaything. Unquestionably the people have given the President a large, if ill-defined mandate, but this project was certainly anything but an integral part...