Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. The great issue of the election was a fear of Socialism, expressed in the policy of the Labor Party. Socialism, at least for a time, is now a dead letter?an overwhelming body of the electorate voted against it. An even greater body would have voted against it, had many of Labor's supports believed that their leaders would be influenced by the extremists...
...Polka Vendredi," with the flavor of a dirty joke of the '70's, she became the sort of person that modern Chief Justices and aging college presidents were warned against in their salad days-a saucy, swaggering, heliotroped trollop. Young blades regarding her shivered slightly with a fear that all had not yet been told them; old bucks wiped away a tear and thought of the Bal Bullier. Critical opinion next morning proclaimed that "Madame Karsavina is a very beautiful woman who gives much pleasure" (The New York Times) ; that "Madame Karsavina is one of the best dancers...
With a pessimism natural in disappointment those who had vision of a glorious efflorescence of genius fear the bloodless dominion of my evalism. It is thought that literature and the arts cannot endure the blight of a new are of Babbitts But paradox as it is, the post-war idealists are almost too practical for practical purposes. If they would embody their ideals at once into institutions, they would take away the incentive needed for further progress. Given a vision plus an obstacle hindering its attainment, one has the true settings which makes for intellectual advancement...
Thus far this season, Springfield has given little material for comparison with University runners. The Y. M. C. A. college is, however, usually strong in the long-distance event and recently defeated Bates. With its regular contingent in, the meet, the University would probably have little to fear as to the result, but three men, Captain Chapin, Cutcheon, and Harrison, will...
...English Fear Soviet Taint...