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Last week the Socialists began one of their periodical moves to eliminate the dread Pilsudski. But the hulking, burly, stern-eyed Marshal, without waiting to don his uniform, rushed from his summer home near Vilna to the capital, and roared: "I will not tolerate these tendencies of the Sejm to kick over the traces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Dread Pilsudski | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Upon one occasion, at least, Alfonso was put to an extreme test of courage. Deciding to visit a leper colony in the midst of almost inaccessible mountains, he rode on horseback for the better part of two days to the dread hamlet. There he received a great welcome. Never, in the en tire history of the colony, had a sovereign been so bold. Advancing through the street, the King was suddenly confronted by a leper, who ran out from a nearby building. Leering, his evil, malicious-looking face contorted in an ugly menace, he held out an infected hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Regatta | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...seeking whom it may devour, has made its appearance in the college world, starting out from the savage jungles of Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the lbis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces--but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum, for how can one little, Tiger, however fierce he may be, make a menngerie all by himself? Can a feather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appearance of "Tiger" in 1882 Made Lampy Quake in His Roomy Boots--Princeton Periodical Early Showed Promise | 6/8/1927 | See Source »

...something to show for their beliefs, while what can their elders show for their belief in His Celestial Majesty? Belief in the former has always brought joy and good fellowship, while belief in the latter has brought nothing but strife and bloodshed ever since the race succumbed to its dread influence. Kindly look up the following citations: Gen. 38: Ezek. 16: Gen. 19:30-38; 20:18; 25:24-26; Ezek. 33:23; Lev. 15:16-33: Deut. 23:1; 2:13; 25:11-12; 1 Sam. 25:22; 2 Sam. 11:2-5; 1 Kings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Enthusiasm | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...that such ordeals are done, the Sabbath passes in a flaccid mood that contenplates and condemns all things, particularly those of an academic tinge. There is scant pleasure in a contemplation of Monday's lecture schedule, and the day closes with a sense of futility and a dread of the professorial wrath to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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