Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maybe," suggested a pert newshawk, "you had better write Washington about it." The President got a big laugh, but serious Otis Moore was at pains to point out to reporters that, for fear of embarrassing the President, he had sought no government agricultural benefits. Said he: "I will not even let the Negroes who live on the land apply for relief...
...refreshing it is, after all to see Radcliffians engage in such a flagrantly geuinine pursuit. Secure in the knowledge that we have finally lived down and buried our reputation of the dark ages, we can now knit mittens and pet the college cats without fear of being called potential old maids...
Characteristic, without prejudice, was the TIME, Nov. 19 account of the Negro "Gentleman from Illinois." I fear many Southerners-not only "hot-blooded Congressmen from the South"-will let the color of Chicago's new Democratic Representative Arthur Mitchell shade their opinions of his ability. . . . Moving here eight years ago a Chicagoan until then-I have failed miserably in an earnest attempt to find justification for the Southern attitude toward all Negroes...
...this time, when Germany most needs the support of the world, France is busying herself building cement trenches and machine gun nests on her frontier, and supporting a fleet of 5,000 military planes in deadly fear that Germany is secretly preparing for war. And yet it is only the politicians and newspapers of Paris that seem to fear and imagine this war, for again and again in the frontier provinces," Mr. Villard said. "I have found the peasants and towns people in perfectly friendly relations with the Germans...
...with no little misgiving that I write this letter; misgiving born partly from fear of its being misunderstood; partly of the presumptuousness of its contents. But it is because I sincerely feel that I am expressing the inarticulate opinion of a great portion of the undergraduate body that I assume the responsibility which this communication places upon...