Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written on a slip of paper pasted over some previous heading, which, after steaming off the paper slips, turned out to be Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. Needless to say, those of us who were "in on the know" procured and devoured (somewhat secretively in a few cases I fear) copies of that book. Concert night, the program notes stated that Mr. Cadman's composition had been influenced by the writings of George W. Cable, at which statement several of us held our tongues in our cheeks. . . . A. F. MUENCHOW Omaha...
...What is a sound wine critic? I am a sound wine critic. It is confounded snobbery to think that the only people who can tell good wine from bad are experts who spend their short lives sipping and spewing out, sipping and spewing out. never swallowing a mouthful for fear of perverting their taste. I myself have no fear of perverting my taste. And I am just about the only wine critic in the world who is not in the pay of somebody or other. . . . ARTHUR R. SMITH New York...
...position of command, and dies. Mr. McCormick is a great actor, but he is the most shadowy of the major figures in this play. Eileen Crowe plays Nora, the wife. In her efforts to save her husband she mocks the barricaded rebels, and charges them with fear to admit their fear. One feels that she abhors the struggle only because it destroys here own happiness, for in trying to drag Jack out of the fight she is oblivious of the agony of a man dying at their feet, and in her insane delusion that Jack is about to return...
...Nanking's greatest fear, which explains the sudden evacuation of the capital despite the fact that the Japanese troops are still 110 miles east of the city gates, is looting by Chinese troops-not fear of bombardment from Japanese warships. . . . Inside the Chinese lines the utmost confusion prevails. . . . Chinese troops have not been paid since August. . . . There is severe lack of food for front-line troops. . . . Demoralization had resulted from lack of attention for the Chinese wounded. . . . Then, too, might be added the strong resentment of the Chinese front-line troops at the fact that while they are under...
...were reprinted in science journals. Last week at Indianapolis the A. A. A. S. council officially approved the plan for some of the world's most learned men to form an international body of thinkers and knowers that might light up a world darkened by malice, ignorance and fear. Dreamily unpractical though such a notion was in the light of past experience, Secretary Moulton began to draw up U. S. contributions to a world platform on which a World Association of Science, if formed, could stand...