Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus a Constitutional amendment would be required before Argentina could limit immigration as does the U. S. Instead of maintaining a dread, jail-like Ellis Island, the Government at Buenos Aires welcomes immigrants in a spotless hotel, transports them free to wherever they desire to settle, and both feeds'and lodges them at their destination for a period of ten days. Scarcely surprising, therefore, is the fact that Madrid contains fewer Spaniards than Buenos Aires and Rome fewer Italians. Recently the influx of Italians has been drastically cut down, not by any Argentine restriction, but by the refusal...
Spain's invalid Crown Prince, the Infante Don Alfonso, suffers from exactly the same dread and peculiar disease, haemophilia,* which afflicted the Tsarevitch Alexis, son and heir of Tsar Nicholas the Last. The Tsaritsa and the Tsar are well known to have fallen a prey to the notorious "Black Monk" and hypnotist Gregory Rasputin, whom they devoutly believed to be the only person capable of curing the Tsarevitch. In Spain rumors have long been irresponsibly current that Queen Victoria Eugenie has employed an obscure Catalonian doctor to attend the Infante Don Alfonso...
...most dread punishments commonly inflicted by ruthless Dictator-King Amanullah of Afghanistan upon male offenders is "public exposure...
...usual gay and carefree appearance in public during the last few weeks, it has been at the price of a great mental strain. For his soul has been oppressed with the knowledge that dogging his every footstep and growing more huge and ominous every day there has been a dread spectre of Responsibility. Neglect served only to increase the bulk and fearsomeness of the apparition, and so yesterday the Vagabond surrendered and set about making out his Christmas shopping list...
There was but the slightest quiver in the eastern part of Sicily last week. A few desultory rivulets of lava gurgled into the Mediterranean. The dread eruption of Etna (TIME, Nov. 19) was over...