Word: direful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, last week, progressed what theorists and newspapers described with morbid jubilance as "the student suicide wave." The total self-destructions since New Year's readied 21. Dire views continued to be expressed on the evil influence of new philosophies, new psychology, and of high-pressure school requirements. At the University of Baltimore, 13 undergraduates were inspired to form an Anti-Suicide Club, with the powerful motto: "Live and let live". . . . President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland submitted: "Abnormal living is causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli...
...Kipling, Jack London, Stevenson and Conrad, we have gleaned bits of tropic lore, and still more recently the moving picture has brought to our very eyes the delights and delusions of life in perpetual summer. A very popular, successful, and excellent play of the last two years showed the dire results of a coincidence of man, woman and a bottle of gin in a languorons tropical setting, with a steady shower of rain out-side...
Vagabonds have always been notoriously lazy folk; statute passed in England in the reign of Elizabeth provide compulsory employment for the peripatetic vagrants of the time, and dire punishments for those who refused to work. Today there are no such restrictions, and one who is at best a Student Vagabond may enjoy the priviliges of his order, especially during this unseasonable weather that makes his legs tingle for the hard road beneath them, and the joys of true vagabondage. So the explaining of the course of French socialism in the eighteenth century I shall, with true vagabondish carelessness, leave...
...omened effects of secret treaty-making were demonstrated again last week by a flood of rumors containing dire hints of secret "war clauses." Though everyone knows that secrecy between nations breeds misunderstandings and wars, the Fascist Tribuna declared in an exultant editorial: "Following the good old method of secret diplomacy, a solid contribution to post-war European pacification has been achieved...
...What was Sir John Simon's dire reminder to labor leaders...