Word: direful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the second vetoing of the McNary-Haugen bill last spring, Mr. Peek threatened the Republican Party with dire happenings. Nothing happened. Then he went to Houston and had the satisfaction of seeing the controversial principle of McNary-Haugenism written into the Democratic platform. He visited Manhattan last week to learn how the Democrats proposed to elaborate their platform. He arrived with assurances, much like those he voiced prior to the G. O. P. convention, that the Farmer was angry at the G. O. P., that the Farm Problem could be solved by McNary-Haugenism and by nothing else...
...Vienna and Belgrade told of scores being killed and hundreds wounded in riots in various Macedonian cities; of the mutiny of a portion of the fleet; of a Communist revolution which was declared to be in progress; of fighting behind barricades in the streets of Piraeus, and of other dire happenings...
...permitted to appear before Manhattan spectators. It delineated for their benefit the events that led up to the overthrow of the Tsarist régime. The picture was a Soviet government production and as such was intended as an advertisement of the home country rather than as the dire panorama it might otherwise have been. Its story-that of a young Russian peasant lost in the shuffle of war and disaster-excited the attention of neither the director, Vyesolod Pudovkin, nor those who viewed his efforts. The peasant and his troubles were forgotten when the chance came to show flashes...
...recognition that had been given them." He further charged that white and Negro women were obliged to use the same washroom. Senator Stephens said his protest was "in the interest of decency and the welfare of Government. Whenever there has been a step toward social equality between the races, dire results have followed...
...Duchess Charlotte, 32, reigns and rules over Luxembourg. Her richly wooded and softly meadowed realm dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany. Her capital, the City of Luxembourg, rises aloof and serene upon a small plateau. Her mild and irreproachable consort is Prince Felix de Bourbon-Parma. Last week a dire project was under way to introduce into this quiet Eden a prodigious roisterer, a mighty brawler, a veritable Serpent...