Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that tonight I feel that I have not begun to climb as high as I have aspired and, as the shadows lengthen, I fear I never shall. Like most fishermen, I find the biggest fish* got away...
...Then I was offered strong support as a candidate for Governor of New York in opposition to Mr. Whitman [in 1912]. I pondered the matter and then called upon Colonel Roosevelt, of whom I was a close friend. He expressed the fear that I could not beat Whitman because the organization was back of him, and he told me he thought he would be elected President of the United States and said to me: 'I shall want you to be my Secretary of State...
...then surprised them and Europe and the U. S. by bluntly stating: "The full measure of American helpfulness can be obtained only when the American people are assured . . . that the time for peaceful upbuilding has come." If confusion continues, "then, I fear that these helpful processes which are now in motion must inevitably cease...
...other characters shed varying degrees of light. One was a cattle drover. Out of animal fear, to lay the ghost of a girl he had beaten dead, he protected a girl whom someone else had seduced. Another was a hulking bank clerk, one Malden. He was benevolent toward chess, Nature and Rose Netley. Rose, was a social worker to whom all fallen girls were "sisters," She did a certain amount of temporary good in an enthusiastic...
Perhaps the authorities fear that the sentimental reaction that most hunger strikes engender among hoi polloi will harm their party were they to let Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...