Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vassar College sees Yalemen about his campus every weekend. Interviewed by a Yale Newsman, said he: "We are now faced by the grave problem of extensive lack of manners in regard to liquor, and I dread the approach of beer for that reason. I resent unmannerly actions resulting from liquor, and I can neither forgive nor forget them. . . . Drinking is an art, and while in France it may be productive of good conversation, in Germany of music, and in England of social living, here it makes fools out of gentlemen. . . . We have arrived at a point where a decided stand...
Shades of Chang. Among the few defunct persons who are kept and will long remain in China's memory is Young Marshal Chang's dread, great father, Old Chang Tso-lin. Self-made, he rose from despised cooliehood through common banditry & murder to become the ruler of Manchuria. Capturing Peking in 1926 he made himself in effect a King-Dictator, negotiating on equal terms with foreign governments. Affecting a fondness for tiger's blood, which he drank warm from the beast as an aphrodisiac, Old Chang was one of the last absolute monarchs, complete with a decadent...
Squinting skyward last week, Turks looked for the new moon. When they should see it Ramadan would begin, Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah...
...comes on, it will first seem melancholy, extra affectionate, sexually excited, or uneasy and inclined to seek solitude. It is apt to gather up straw, thread, bits of wood and trash. It will lick cold objects and other animals, but not be disposed to bite. There is no dread of water at any time. "Hydro-phobia" is a misnomer. The dog will drink as long as it can, until constriction of the throat sets in. The second stage of rabies is mania or nervous excitement. The dog may jump in the air, snap at invisible objects. A peculiar, unmistakeable howling...
...Biggest & Coolest in Town, 5¢." Taxes, Federal, state, local, will probably run its price above 20c per glass. But will beer-by-the-glass return? Few brewers were sure. The distribution problem still offers the greatest conflict of public and private opinion. As deep-rooted as ever is dread of the saloon. Crusader Fred Clark holds firmly to his organization's purpose of "taking profit out of liquor distribution." Such an able Wet as Representative-elect Wadsworth of New York fears that Repeal, the ultimate goal, might be retarded by a reckless flood of beer...