Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...management of the modern world. The crop of discord, war, hate, and international rivalry which the ill-timed pacifism of Gladstone and the brilliant but wholly unmoral opportunism of Disraeli sowed has come to fruition, but the great Victorians failed to leave a generation capable of dealing with this dread harvest. Instead, they left a group of statesmen trained to govern a Victorian World, men stable financially, economically, and politically, but wholly incapable of doing anything more active than to look on with helpless bewilderment when the world all at once became unstable and kaleidoscopic in its complexion...
...staphylococcus infections. Most patients have traces of several of these, and the majority are found to have some form of syphilis. Autographs of Samuel Johnson, Poe, Longfellow, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys and Bret Harte have been tested by Dr. Abrams, revealing that all of them suffered from various dread diseases...
...utmost gravity that he cannot and the address, of "Mr. Fillmore's" society in the directory. In all other cases this modern Dean Swin is denounced to the high heavens. In one case a fervid Manhattanite, evidently having the recent elections a bit heavy on his mind, seems to dread that "Mr. Fillmore", intends to enter politics on the platform of "The coffee-house must go" and perhaps ultimately run for president. On all sides there are waits...
...country wasn't suffering under a curse anyway. Naturally the audience voted overwhelmingly for the negative. And Lady Astor concluded the proceedings by saying : " Here were brilliant young men not believing a word they said, and yet saying it with wit and charm. It made one feel a dread about the future of a democracy." But the debate held in the interests of charity, not faith or hope...
...leaders in the Entente Cordiale were doing all they could to further the cause of peace, the villains of the piece were laying their nefarious plans. He tells of the surreptitious beginnings of the German war policy and leads up by stages to the open manifestations of that dread disease?Francophobia. Finally through a maze of diplomatic material M. Viviani, with true legal logic, proves his case for the prosecution. Some brief notes and excerpts: Of Bismarck: The author shows that Bismarck exercised a great influence in the early days of Wilhelm's reign. Some of his maxims are given...