Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gorilla in modern times. In the eighteen fifties people were terrified but fascinated by what he told of the great apes. Unfortunately, some of the fabulous native stories of the gorillas were mis-construed as his own, among them tales of the beasts abduoting native women. This distrust has even lingered in the minds of present-day writers. It is interesting that, as a Harvard zoologist, who has specialized in the subject, Harold J. Coolidge, Jr., vindicates Du Chaillu's account on the basis of his own experiences with the coast species, less timid than those of the interior...
...Swedish prince when she was 18. Marie liked her husband less and less, got the marriage annulled, went back to Russia. Meantime she visited Italy for her health, and there was a patient of "Dr. M." (Axel Munthe, author of The Story of San Michele), whom she grew to distrust and finally fled. During the War she worked as a nurse, first at the front, later in hospitals. When the Revolution came Marie had met her second husband, Prince Putiatin. They were married in the midst of Red uproars. With him she outlasted the terrors of the winter...
...often for political expedience, upheld unpopular causes: a U. S. bank, peace with England in 1812, the Missouri Compromise, the Fugitive Slave Law. More, his cold dignity repelled warmhearted U. S. crowds. Thinks Biographer Fuess: "It may be that the American people admire, but have a deep-rooted distrust of orators. His very fluency made them wary. He was a man who talked too much...
...Harvard would gain nothing by a relapse into its former silence, allowing the press to misrepresent the University because of faulty information. On the other hand, such instances as that of yesterday succeed in reopening a breach, too recently closed, which can lead in the end only to mutual distrust. The Fourth Estate, in protesting against Harvard's indifference to the public, has seemingly forgotten that it, too, has its responsibilities. There are two sides to this particular bargain...
Thus far the two Houses have been little more than enlarged Freshman dormitories with the similarity between the old and the new residential systems particularly evident in a distrust of the common rooms. If these rooms of the Houses are to prove attractive to the undergraduate they must become more than mere reading rooms where magazines are provided for the entertainment of the residents. The failure of the Freshman Halls to bring any variation in the monotonous round of dormitory existence other than a spiritless smoker once during the year should have taught the University the futility of continuing...