Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founder of Britannia [sip], I said what I thought, without fear or favor. Evidently I am against lots of people [sip], for I believe in everything British! That was what Britannia stood for while I held her helm...
...Fear not, Mary, for thou shalt . . . bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus...
Harvard need not fear the besmirching of her name either by the actions of an infinitesimal minority or by external maledictions, and certainly not from this lonely testimony against her. Like the man who bites a dog, student actions, particularly careless ones, receive ridiculous publicity in comparison to the actions of other men. This latest undesirable criticism, neither unbiased nor constructive, is easily recognizable as more evidence of the readiness of Boston and Cambridge to betray their latent antagonism in a town-and-gown alignment which is marked most distinctly on occasions like the present...
...Dramatic Club must have had the city pretty thoroughly, scared. The authorities would not allow the play to go on uncensored, for fear of consequences which must be cataclysmic, since they are unnamed, and they were afraid, according to Mr. Casey, that the actors would not abide by any alterations in the text, but shoot the whole works, in defiance of agreement. There is, apparently, no trust in the mart of decency...
...Barker. George Fitzmaurice directs intelligently and movingly the consequences of a circus-man's proud affection for his son and his fear that circusing will spoil the boy's chance of amounting to something. Highly admired as a stageplay two seasons ago, the story by Kenyon Nicholson is better than most screen-stories; and Milton Sills, the barker, is convincing even when he chokes his girl friend (Betty Compson) for contriving the seduction of his son by one of the carnival ladies (Dorothy Mackaill). Out of the sound device comes barker-lingo; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (the barker...