Word: fears
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...murder of a coal-heaver's daughter which has been committed in the rue de Lourcine. The two listeners find coal upon their hands, and all the evidence points to their having committed the crime during hours of which they remember nothing. Panic-stricken, they proceed to drown their fear in curacoa, which proves very effective. They attempt to murder all the inmates of the house and thus destroy all evidence. Happily they are too intoxicated to carry out their purpose, and they finally discover with infinite joy that the newspaper referring to the crime is over twenty years...
...stagedriver, one by a guide, and one is a trapper's tale of long ago. The first two are "bear stories," and do not belie their kind. Rude men, of uncouth speech spiced with damns and tobacco juice; tell of beasts of fabulous dimensions and behavior, without fear of the "malleus naturfakerorum." Like other patterns for stories, this can be repeated to monotony. In "Autumn in the Forest," Mr. Edgell reproduces the sights he "photographed in his mind for future reference"; but, if I may pursue the figure, the retouching shows too much--nature does not willingly submit to being...
...much in doubt. The Faculty as a rule leaves the decision of athletic questions in the hands of the undergraduates, who would object very strongly to any curtailment of the various athletic schedules." And even if the Yale faculty did not do so, the undergraduates would have little to fear. President Hadley has been quoted as saying. "Some" of the students "wish to go home for Saturday or Sunday. Others go to the nearest city to amuse themselves. Each of these things, particularly the latter, is a more serious cause of interruption to college work than are most...
...meet that man on your farm, in your village, or in your Legislature. But be sure that, whenever or where ever you meet him, as soon as it comes to a direct issue between you, his little finger will be thicker than your loins. You will go in fear of him; he will not go in fear of you. You will do what he wants; he will not do what you want. You will find that you have no weapon in your armory with which you can attack him; no argument with which you can appeal to him. Whatever...
...last occasion of being serenaded in Albany when the crowd sang "So Long Charley, Don't You Never Come Back Home!" After speaking of his pleasure of being able to address such a crowd, he said that any one who could look into such faces and have any fear for the country's future was a pessimist for who there was absolutely no hope. The college man, he remarked, can see about as far into a stone wall as any man there is, but he must not be in such a hurry to get rich that he forgets his duties...