Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condemnation of Senator Robinson of Arkansas to tar and feathers was made only in "fun." In a speech bristling with denunciations and innuendos it was not their duty to separate the wheat from the chaff. Indeed, if senatorial "fun" of Senator Heflin's brand can be checked by a fear of the "villains" of the press galleries, it is advantageous for the sensibilities of the nation to have the correspondents present...
...shoot a gun with the other?" he asked, referring to Secretary Wilbur's naval projects and Scnator Kelogg's attempts to create peace. "Since the world war", President Butler continued", the dominant question in the minds of men has been the avoidance of war. The one overwhelining and dominant fear of man is that such a catastrophic madness may come again...
...instructed his people that such procedure is not good form in receiving an honored visitor. Chicago has outstripped Boston in its cordiality to a British sympathizer; for Cosgrave is so looked upon by the Irish Republicans. His omission of a visit to Boston is generally ascribed to a fear of hostility from that direction in Boston. The situation is anomalous. But then they say that some one sent "Big Bill" a monocle for Christmas...
...Catholic Church, with the sinners gathered back into the fold. The Church seeks temporal power in Italy; it deplores Mexico! it disapproves of Prohibition in the United States. All these things bring it to the attention of American Protestants. But the open letters and Theological explanations intended to allay fear of the primacy of the Church over the temporal affairs of its communicants have made few converts. No logic can move the man who says flatly that he will not elect for his president one who has kissed the Pope's ring, even, it may be supposed...
...public has been self-consciously seeking knowledge, but it is impossible to expect it to consume all the indigestible efforts that now bury bookshop counters. The burden of a profitable business, they must go down in red ink on the ledgers of men who abandon discrimination because they fear to reject a work that might parallel the phenomenum by Will Durant. And the better authors, in a struggle to keep their heads above water in a sea of competitors, must produce more often if not as well, to hold public interest...