Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Royden then explained that according to modern psychologists all man's reactions were subject to cause and effect "as much as the path of the start or the way of the sun. Of course a terrible fear creeps over the sensitive man. But we must recognize that there are spiritual laws and we must not ignore or repress them...
...cracks his long whip, shoots, stabs as if he were playing the role of a contemporary gangster instead of Joaquin Murrietta whose career was a trail of blood, bullets, alcohol and love for a pure sweet girl through the days of '49. There is no need to fear that Jake Hamby and his gang will be spry enough to catch and hang so gallant a jack, although they make violent efforts...
...Count is not only a delightful buccaneer and a great sportsman, but he also has an incredible gift of relating his own stories. He acts them out on the platform. His strength is tremendous. One evening I saw him fear up 30 New York telephone directories, ripping them right in half. To illustrate his likability I can best fell you that Mayor Rolph of San Francisco was financially interested in a cargo that Luckner sent to the bottom. He was so taken in by the Count's congenial ways that he presented him with the golden Key to the city...
...roamed the streets all night, fear wrapping cold fingers about my brow and the cold sweat on my heart. But with morning came relief. At that time I remembered suddenly, they were filling in the last of the made land in the Back Bay. I got a special interview with the Mayor, and he ordered a fleet of dump carts to leave for Cambridge, with me as pilot...
...third Mr. Remus was said to be the second Mr. Remus while insane, i. e. "beside himself", with jealousy, fear and indignation. The first Mr. Remus (attorney) explained that the second Mr. Remus (defendant) had been cuckolded, and his life plotted against, while he was serving a penitentiary term for bootlegging. One Franklin L. Dodge, onetime Prohibition agent, was named as cuckoldor. Attorney Remus argued that Defendant Remus had become Murderer Remus by unbearable provocation from Mr. Dodge and Mrs. Remus and that Defendant Remus had, therefore, been made not only a millionaire but also a martyr by Prohibition...