Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quoted a partly identified business executive as talking bloodthirstily about a White House assassination. Quoting "a New York specialist," the pink sheet, in another issue, had described the President's Southern fishing jaunt as a disguised health trip necessitated by his being found in the coma of a dread disease. The purport of these quotations being outrageously untrue, libelous and incendiary, the White House did not wish to dignify them by denial but put the case of the McClure Syndicate up to the Washington news fraternity to deal with in its own way, for its own honor...
Music is real, music is earnest to Mischa Mischakoff. He teaches 22 pupils at the American Conservatory of Music, runs his own string quartet. He plays the piano almost as well as the violin. Students dread Mischakoff's caustic tongue but know that, at parties, he is a good fellow. A bachelor, he likes swimming, plays ping-pong gladly and badly, appears with hair mussed and bushy, clothes drooping as though too big for him. As a violin trader he is ready, shrewd, almost always wins. He regrets leaving Chicago but says he could not resist...
...Stalin fortnight ago got after the long-time chief of his Secret Police, dread Genrikh Yagoda (TIME, April 12). Whether or not Yagoda was squealing confessions under pressure of Ogpu third degree last week, the State in its newsorgans suddenly foamed with rage about Yagoda, using "Russian words rarely encountered outside the Government decrees of the time of Peter the Great, causing general wonderment as to the nature of the crime," according to able Herald Tribune Moscow Correspondent Joseph Barnes...
...police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption to date...
...with the same super-service from Stalin's NKVD. When rich Mr. Davies liked a picture in a State store so well that he paid 5,000 rubles smack down for it last week-nominally $1,000-J. Stalin's Sherlocks began muttering among themselves. These dread Soviet police sent for a nervous Russian art expert, he appraised the picture as worth 800 rubles, and the NKVD cracked down on the Ukranian State shop. It promptly disgorged 4,200 rubles and this "refund" NKVD agents beamingly carried to Capitalist Davies in his private...