Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even the prospect of making 600,000 pesetas can quell the mortal dread of the sea which Escudero shares with many another gypsy (TIME, Jan. 25). For him the ocean and all water, he says, is hell. He spent his six days aboard the Aquitania this autumn lying in his cabin in a pair of red silk pyjamas, trembling lest he should die and be thrown overboard for fish to devour. Ashore he soon becomes the soul of assurance again. He wears grey flannel shirts for formal and informal occasions, usually with a tie he has crocheted himself. But last...
...silhouets many a crude indigenous growth, England's politely setting sun bathes her literary garden in a relatively classic glow. English readers dislike and distrust such experimenters as James Joyce and David Herbert Lawrence. And many a U. S. reader, Tory if no longer colonial, shares the British dread of untrimmed edges, prefers the clipped formality of more traditional writers. For such tastes Authoresses Rosamond Lehmann, Margaret Kennedy and Victoria Sackville-West (see cols. 2 & 3) offer fine nosegays...
Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...
...supposed reprisal for the murder 18 months ago of Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, onetime head of Unione Sicilione, friend of "Scarface Al" Capone. Masseria was shot to death in Scarpato's restaurant at Coney Island. Although Scarpato presented a perfect alibi, he lived in mortal dread of vengeance, insisted that police record his fingerprints, had his full name tattooed on his left arm. Died. Florence Agnes Amberg Hurley, 47, second wife of famed Chicago Businessman Edward Nash Hurley; of injuries received in an automobile accident; at Berkeley near Chicago. Mr. Hurley, a co-receiver for onetime Insull properties...
Clearly Dictator Stalin, on reaching Moscow, had studied Russia's vital statistics, deciding at a glance that the Soviet Union faces a food shortage this winter which will bring back memories of her dread Famine Year, 1921. Correspondents, soon to feel the pinch, filled their despatches last week with stomach-crisis facts...