Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...galleries shook with fear, whilst the stumps in the Potomac River bobbed up and down in unison with his vociferous periods." [Laughter...
...here and insult the Protestant people of America by attacking a Protestant Senator for daring to tell the truth about the efforts of a Catholic organization to involve our country in a foreign war? . . . I have no apology to make to the Senator from Missouri, and I do not fear in the least the thrusts of his keen lance; for, as Shakespeare said, 'Thrice armed is he whose cause is just.' I am backed by the truth, and I am standing on the bedrock of Americanism. My cause is just...
...Fear and Loyalty are the tests of Power. Men fear or are loyal to what they believe is strong. Today, measured by the tests of fear and loyalty, there is one man just three years dead last week, whose awful presence is stronger than the prestige of any living statesmen...
Statesmen Coolidge, Baldwin, Poincaré, Stresemann, even Mussolini, have invoked with respect to Mexico, Nicaragua, India, China, Tibet, Java and most of the earth's troubled lands, fear of all the spectre stands for. Asia is troubled by it, vaguely wondering if in loyalty to this presence perhaps lies union, strength and conquest...
...Undoubtedly, one of the subtitles will be "The Phillips Brooks House,"--and what a field for imagination! Here in one corner would be--but then, it is better not to suggest things to the Lampoon. And after all, the Phillips. Brooks House Association hasn't cause for too great fear. Even the most determined of its strangers remember the name in the haze of Student Council Budgets or Lecture Posters, and unanswered Social Service invitations as connected in some way with that little black notebook that we used when we had to sing Fair Harvard for the first time. That...