Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ruhr: " Had Governor Cox been elected President in 1920, the French would not be in the Ruhr in 1923. . . . The real cause (of the controversy) is the fear of Frenchmen that when Germany is in condition to pay she will also be in condition to discontinue payment and, should it suit her plans, to invade France again...
...Intellectuals and Roughnecks", for example, ought to be read--forcibly or otherwise--to every young "writer" or "literary man" or "thinker" under twenty-five years of age. It contains some things we have wanted to say ourself for a long time, but have never quite dared to for fear of being called crude. "An Oxford Symbol"--we may as well tell you beforehand that it is a corkscrew--is done in the best Morley style; Dame Quickly and Glssing add their bit; and the chapter on "Sir Kenelm Digby" is a rare delight, with its recipes and its appreciation...
...chosen Lummucks as the title of her new novel−the one which is a study of a foreign born servant girl working in America. George Middleton, the playwright, excited because of the difficulties between the Actor's Equity Association and the theatrical managers, and concerned for fear the poor author would fall in ruins between them: Here, too, Jesse Lynch Williams, a compiler of Why Not? and Why Marry? Clayton Hamilton, rescued from Hollywood and the motion pictures but apparently still interested in them; Robert Stead, President of the Canadian Authors' Association; William Rose Benet, planning, doubtless...
Today Comrade Ratsky arrived. He believes that all humanity is in a vise and we the enlightened, are the only ones to be extricated. A good man, but I fear his presence here...
...these cramped quarters he was compelled to lie for four hours. He did not dare sleep for fear of being carried on to Washington. Indeed, as he expressed it so poignantly, what better proof is needed of the perfidy of the railroads? So obscurely were the stations sign-posted all along the way, the he was actually obliged to strain his eyes at every little jerk stop to perceive whether or not it was New York...