Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blonde wife of a Colonel so elderly and so gallant that when faced with the temptation of cuckolding him, an officer who comes from the right school will ask for a transfer. A playwright who comes from the right school will then get the woman into danger. In the besieged Buddhist monastery Esther Ralston and Dix kiss while tribesmen's 'bullets spatter around them. At intervals they speak with as much conviction as they can bombastic lines shopworn 'by ten years of theatrical use. Miss Ralston is beautiful and a good actress. Dix is handsome but doesn...
...occurred to me in this connection that these States have passed laws banning the teaching of the theory of organic evolution in state-aided schools. Will you kindly get your staff of psychologists, anthropologists, etc., busy on this question, and inform me whether there is any connection between the danger of teaching evolution and the necessity of marking both ends of the car differently? Just last week I saw evidence that at least one person from the three above named States had a sense of humor. He had the "rear" license plate in front, and the "front" plate...
...this would happen, if Hoover should be elected? ... I told them Negroes would be eating in the White House next!" Other Southern Senators, including Texas' Sheppard, Alabama's Heflin, Mississippi's Harrison, "deplored" the event, viewed it as a "recognition of social equality," warned of "infinite danger to our white civilization." In Maryland, a Negro-problem State which voted for Hoover in 1928, the leading daily (Baltimore Sun, Democratic) carried a long front page story in which Correspondent J. Fred Essary took pains to mention that Mrs. De Priest had arrived early, stayed late, enjoyed herself hugely...
...sent troops into Shantung because the lives and property of Japanese nationals there were in danger. The emergency is over now and we have the solemn assurance of the present government that our nationals will be given adequate protection." Hotly did Baron Tanaka deny that, as most Chinese Nationalists and foreign correspondents believe, Japan is unfriendly to the Chinese Nationalist Government : "A strong China with a government capable of enforcing its will over the entire area would be a blessing for Japan. . . . For a strong China, freed of the turmoil and the chaos which has plagued it for so many...
...planes will have to be built with special cabins for stowaways, and Congress will have to establish some new honor to confer on such people. On the other hand if Schrieber received a jail sentence or a heavy fine, which would offset the thousands he is making now, the danger of the recurrence of such actions would be greatly lessened...