Word: direful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, vociferous chairman of the Banking & Currency Committee, made a dire prophecy of much lower price levels, even hinted at anarchy and revolution, insinuated that vast machinations by a J. P. Morgan-directed group are to blame for everything...
...white arms slide out of hidden panels, murdered bodies mysteriously disappear to the embarrassment of the burly and thwarted constabulary, Spook House provides staple entertainment. Its scene is laid in a mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny Irish policeman, one extremely competent and clever gunman, one beauteous female operative of the Department of Justice...
...There is hardly a regiment in Italy in which other Americans are not being held. Some of them are terrorized. They have relatives there who appeal to them not to say anything lest dire punishment be visited upon them...
Under the Official Secrets Act (see p. 28) the MacDonald Government threatened dire punishment to any British paper which scoops the report before it is officially released. Vol. I two weeks hence. Vol. II four weeks hence. George V and Mr. MacDonald received their copies last week. Current London opinion was that the Simon Report will pussyfoot, will recommend nothing which can bridge the gulf between India and Britain...
...Doorn advanced in a potent sentence, well worth pondering: "The intercession of the crucified Lord, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,' is not intended for the Jewish leaders but for the poor German legion aries, who, acting under the orders of their superiors, must inflict dire suffering upon the Lord...