Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the least fastidious movie goer would not mistake his identity. . . . I fear your most admirable movie critic has fallen to the depths of grammatical hyperbole...
...petty popularizer, rushing into print to meet a political opportunity or beat the Liberty Bell. Neither New Dealers nor Republicans could make resounding political copy of his book, but New Dealers are sure to like it better. The burden of Mr. Hendrick's epic song is: Fear not. The Constitution has survived much worse storms than this one, is not really so much a bulwark as a life-raft-"a living and fluid instrument, built not for an age, but for all time, responsive to the needs of a changing world." He reminds gloomy headshakers that...
...back to regenerate that power, Boss Roraback had the kind of friends and enemies that only strong men make. What Ohio's Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") Hanna did with the Republican Party nationally during the single Presidential generation of William McKinley, whipping Big Business to the Party treasury with fear of Bryan's silver money, cajoling it with protective tariffs and other favors, Boss Roraback did with controlled budgets, legislation favorable to industry, in Connecticut during eight gubernatorial terms. But public resentment against his dominance never rose very high because, though a monopolist, he was honest and not rapacious...
...quarterly diocesan conference at Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Cardinal Mundelein tore into the Nazi Government: "The fight is to take the [2,000,000 German] children away from us. ... Perhaps you will ask how it is that a nation of 60,000,000 people, intelligent people, will submit in fear and servitude to an alien, an Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one at that, I am told. . . . During and after the World War the German Government complained bitterly of the propaganda aimed at it by the Allies concerning atrocities perpetrated by German troops. Now the present German Government is making...
...sees it comes into the visitor's view. The rooster is enormous (see cut). The loudspeaker continues: ". . . for there is a social system in the barnyard. One hen ... can peck another hen . . . without being pecked back, and a third hen can peck still a fourth . . . without fear of retaliation. The rooster stands at the head of this social system, but beneath him,' in a definite social order, are arranged the various hens. This social system does not owe its existence merely to strength. Bluff or circumstances frequently enter into the establishing of an order. If two hens, strangers...