Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thin I can actually embrace you on the stage when an embrace is in order. I cannot embrace stout prime donne very well, because I am so fat myself!' " Elsewhere there is this wise remark, "You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will en-'danger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake." The fine old figure of the Emperor Franz Josef flits through a large section of the book, together with many crowned and titled European celebrities and our own Roosevelt. At Ischl, Jeritza sang before...
...would undertake for a moment to belittle the value of graduate schools, or to assert that new buildings are to the life of a college as nothing; but there is a very real danger here that the perspective on the true function of a university will be curiously distorted. If the present trend is allowed to continue unchecked, the university of the future will be little more than a collection of highly specialized technical schools, with somewhere in an out of the way corner the attenuated ghost of what was once a college of the liberal arts...
...Durban Club he said: "It is humiliating to me and to all of us, that the Prime Minister of this great country may no longer address his fellow citizens. I have for months pointed to the danger; now you see it demonstrated before your eyes. The red flag has come to South Africa, free speech is denied us. Are we going to sit still under this treatment ? I am sure...
Handbills signed by The Great Forward Association were distributed. Japanese present were accused of "associating with foreigners in a frivolous amusement when their nation was insulted and in danger." The handbills read...
...spokesman for the Japanese guests said to Americans present: "The demonstration had not been intended as an affront to the Americans, but was intended to shame the Japanese present, who were associating with Americans 'in this time of national danger...