Word: dreadfulness
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Last week a Chicago reporter of the United Press discovered a Mrs. Andrew Nelson, wife of a workless carpenter and mother of six, dying of dread Addison's disease. Her physician, Dr. Richard Torpin, remarked that extract of adrenal cortex might prolong her life. But the extract was scarce, impossible to get. A small news item resulted...
...spring the National Revolutionary Party, of which President Ortiz Rubio is titular head, started a violent campaign to oust Jews from Mexico. Permits allowing them to trade in the markets were recalled. As a result, some Jews in Mexico City are starving. All, says Correspondent Brenner, live in daily dread of a pogrom...
...Southern-born white man, I take issue with the statement in TIME, Aug. 17, p. 10, subject "Races": "In the back of every Southern white man's head lies a mortal dread that some... crazy black man will lay hands on his wife or daughter, rape her, kill her or both...
...back of every Southern white man's head lies a mortal dread that some night, somehow, some crazy black man will lay hands on his wife or daughter, rape her, kill her, or both. For the white man, eternal vigilance over his womenfolk is impractical, impossible. And such crimes as he mortally fears do happen. One happened near Birmingham, Ala. last week...
...Sabin had returned to New York, gone to bed with a bad cold when she received Mrs. Nicholson's challenge. She would have gladly accepted it, she said, had she been given sufficient notice. To the Dry leader she replied: "You express dread of liquor 'openly dispensed.' Am I to understand that the fact that at present liquor is being secretly dispensed the length and breadth of the country is a matter of indifference to you? I cannot help but be amused by your other state- ments. . . . Why is it that Prohibitionists refuse to discuss conditions as they are today...