Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playwright has reduced the problem to unjustifiably simple terms. His querist springs from a clash between fundamentalism and atheism. He is the son of an unyielding minister and he is in love with the daughter of a belligerent unbeliever. Driven by the fear inspired by both these attitudes he sets out to find a god before whom he will not have to cower...
Though slugged in the back of the head in its recent attack on educational principles at Harvard by the misrepresentations of the American Press, Lampy still wishes to exonerate himself. Fear of a spanking by the Harvard Alumni Bulletin has sobered up the otherwise happily smiling jester...
...Many crimes are punished by long imprisonment; if a man while committing such a crime finds that he can escape detection by killing, there is no fear of punishment to restrain him from doing so, if murder is also punished by imprisonment...
...then struck West toward escape. A great buzzard flapped over her?omen of evil?and when she reached a clearing she could see a cloud of his fellows in waterspout formation pointing like a finger down to the knoll in the swamp. She was betrayed. In an agony of fear and bafflement Hagar of the massive torso and puny wit, surrendered to her fate. But suddenly a beautiful idea dawned: "A nigger killin' heself by what de white folks calls committin' suicide."?"Everybody know nigger nebber kill heself."?"Why dat is?"?" 'Cause nigger ain't worry heself...
University authorities declined last night to release the name of the course in which this unusual departure occurred for fear that the fact that the vagabond secured a satisfactory grade for his three hour participation might unduly swell the rolls next year. But shrouded in silence as the details of this outbreak of Romanticism must be, brightly shines the moral of the tale; even in the twentieth century a vagabond may be King...