Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There, rules which once made the House a marionnette show and now crushes the unimportant member, have never existed. To the Senate, every president, each secretary of state have submitted their treaties in fear and trembling. Even minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed...
...narrow Republican margin of control; 2) that most of the Democrats wanted Mr. Nye for that very reason; 3) that the insurgents wanted one more in their group; 4) that many otherwise regular Republicans from states where there is some radicalism were afraid to vote against Mr. Nye for fear of the effect on their constituents; 5) that the opponents of the World Court wanted Mr. Nye because he also is opposed to the Court; 6) that Mr. Nye gained a few adherents because of his stand on other contested election cases Follette. So did the entire Farmer-Labor party...
...years, has been their acting minister the past six months. He takes pains in bringing to all his people the word of God. And this the deaf appreciate because, deprived of a sense and often mocked at, they tend to withdraw from more normal associates. They all too constantly fear a neighbor may be gossiping about them...
...instead of in a spirit of fraternal love; the ex-convicts hounded by the police and generally denied employment; also the so-called murderers, thieves, gunmen, crooks, harlots and other men and women of the underworld who may still be at large and following the arts of hate and fear because we, their brothers and sisters, failed to warm their lives with the fires of fraternity and love...
...class in its own right, patriarch or none. Of its 120 mem bers, there were at one-and-the sametime 17 occupying seats on benches of the judiciary. It has contributed 27 district attorneys and corporation counsels to our legal aristocracy. Lately it has styled itself "famous class"* without fear of contradiction...