Word: dreadfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lotte Lehmann's voice is still powerful and still lyric, but she does not dread the day when she loses it: "I will not miss it a bit," says she, "of that I am quite sure. I like very much to show other sides. Oh, Gott, I have not only...
...earth, the impulses of growing vegetation, the flow of waters, the sweep of winds, the souls of animals, the souls of men good & evil, the living, the dead, press in upon him from, the night. He finds relief from their imminence in simple patterns of beauty and dread-and the primitive fairy tale is born...
Said a Baltimore housewife: "I dread the thought that it was discovered. I was never enthusiastic about it, even when we knew it was ending the war. I'm glad no other country discovered it; I wish we could find some way of destroying the plans and the secret so no one would know about it, including us. ... The bomb is inhuman...
...this dread order break-for whom? for thee...
...Colchicine - an extract of the autumn crocus, useful in gout - has been tried in some half-dozen cases of leukemia, the dread blood disease. No one has been saved from leukemia by colchicine, which slows down the division of living cells, but Dr. W. Harding Kneedler of Philadelphia thinks that colchicine helps and that "further trial . . . seems justified...