Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Storms are first forecast by those who fear them most. Storms in human affairs are often precipitated by sheer nervousness...
...British public knows with absolute certainty that Miss Savidge is an innocent young woman. She has submitted herself to the scrutiny of the person from whom she had most to fear, the Medical Examiner of Scotland Yard, and has been certified to be a "virgo intacta"-fact duly chronicled by the whole British press...
...written autobiographically that he offered Rasputin poisoned wine, after first pretending to take a sip himself. When the Debauchee's potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...
Died. Basil King (pen name of William Benjamin King), 69, onetime Canadian minister of the Episcopal Church, later famed as blind author of opti-mystical novels (The Inner Shrine, The Conquest of Fear, Street Called Straight); after a four-year illness; in Cambridge, Mass...
...jealousy interfering), her camping trip with Charlie Chaplin (the press descending on the fifth day to claim him for its own). And it is not as a wanderlusty siren that she presents herself, but as the brave, beautiful woman who rushes in with passionate intellectual curiosity where goody-goodies fear to tread. With the highly respectable necessity of supporting her two children she turns sculptress and newspaper correspondent, following the scantest lead to new quarry. Mussolini's large feet she found grotesquely absurd, his shuffling step that of a defiant child rather than a decisive man. She made...