Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Addressing the assemblage, President Harding eulogized Hamilton and his " seemingly inspired fear of factionalism...
...moments, and there were many. In the Indian dances and fights it is a relief to see real Indians, and men who know what a horse looks like close to. It was interesting to see the many causes of a steadily decreasing number in the train. Some through fear of homesickness turned back, others died from sickness or privation, many were killed by the Indians and a great number bolted for California at the whisper of the word--Gold. Ploughs were thrown down by the wayside and you see the creeping wagons divide into two streams, with the very...
...liar, and his friend Jackson are wonderfully portrayed. The scene where they get "lickered up" together, and then each take a shot at a mug of whiskey perched on the other's head, just to snow that a man can always trust an old friend, is perfect. We fear though that the hero and the villain left us totally unconvinced. Will Banion was about as graceful as the average opera star, and Sam Woodhull was just too lazy to live. The cast was not up to the setting as a whole, and this seems a shame. However the setting...
...presented itself, to slip away. Then, says the author, " the fact remains that war was caused on that fifth day of July in 1914. And that very man, who, after the carnage, after millions of unfortunates have perished, after he hardly dares to look upon the accusing earth for fear of seeing a tomb rise up before his eyes, cries out, a prey to belated remorse or religious terror: ' My God! I did not will this!' (Memoirs). Mothers of all countries, you hear what he says: He did not will this! He did not will it on the fifth...
...Wheeler of California, Dr. Judson of Chicago, Dr. Jordan of Stanford, occupy separately and as a body a position which even Senators might envy. They stand among the few men of public influence in America whose influence does not depend upon how they stand. They have nothing to fear and nothing to seek for themselves. And they are saved by years of exacerbating contact with youth from the danger of ever becoming old. They are the elder guardians of Plato's Republic deprived of nothing but the authority which they deserve. They are the rarest phenomena of our age?...