Word: dare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have taken in judging and convicting out of court is journalistic lynch law. It is mob murder or mob ac- quittal in all but the overt act. It is mob appeal. Prosecuting attorneys now hasten to the papers with their theories and confessions. Defense attorneys do the same. Neither dare do otherwise. Half wit juries or prejudiced juries are the inevitable result...
...enjoying it. What else, for example, is there but enjoyment in the short leading editorial which of late The Sun (Manhattan) has taken to? They are such editorials as the squire himself would write. No one of the hired under-wardens of the editorial page would dare to write so. For example...
...Very much "I am Sir Oracle." None of Mr. Munsey's hired vendors of opinion could dare such supererogation...
...Would any of our political leaders dare say this publicly...
...History's repetitions prove that after excessive hostility one may expect unreasoning cult. Certainly Cezanne has passed through these phases; he has been the sanctified father, rather indiscriminately, of all the post-impressionist movements. Now he is fast becoming "good form", among the hidebound conservatives. No museum would dare to be without a Cezanne. In Paris, a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work is on view at Berheim Fils, Place de la Madeleine, with an admission charge to swell the fund for a proposed monument to him. It is encouraging to know that the artist engaged to achieve...