Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fear nevertheless I am badly infected with it and may perhaps spread the microbe. Indeed, I am bold enough, unashamed enough, to say that I should be glad...
...keenly interested in "aesthetic outpourings", or stuff after the manner of the Dial. The undergraduate is not afraid of literature. Bad literature, yes: but that is another matter. The trouble with most college literary magazines is that they do try to compromise--that they are timid, and afraid (this fear itself being philistine) to go all out for literary distinction. Playing safe, they achieve a kind of dreary neutrality. And it is a question whether this does them any good. One wonders whether it mightn't be proved that it is precisely when such papers are most successfully "literary" that...
After 20 years, Mary Byrne, teacher at the model school of the New York Training School for Teachers, began to fear the incessancy of this schoolteacher's routine. She would quite often feel a wave of hatred for her pupils, followed by a sentimental shame which made her look at them with a foolish smile. This amused the children. They could scarcely help writing smutty words on the blackboard or making noises to scare Miss Byrne. The other teachers began to notice that she seemed a little gruff when they met her on the stairs. Once she rated...
...grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still the anger in that ancient twisted heart. Emily asked no questions. She looked at her mother with fury and fear; but whatever Mrs. Fletcher commanded, Emily accomplished...
...numbering scores of men, any movement, any word uttered, any picture published, is apt to result in a violation of the spirit at least of the agreement. Under the circumstances, a football coach cannot look at a newspaper, he cannot talk to friends, he cannot read his mail, for fear of finding out something about the opposing team. The mere presence of a Harvard man at Yale during the fall is enough to cause ugly rumours, and indeed such rumours have evidently been heard in New Haven, and anyone in close touch with Harvard football has heard the same rumours...