Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roach has upset me as few things could. Shame! You may cancel my husband's subscription. PEARL ROSE JACKSON (Mrs. Horace Jackson) New York City TIME will cancel Subscriber Horace Jackson's subscription if and when Subscriber Horace Jackson so orders. - ED. Would Buy Sirs: I fear I am known to TIME merely as "one" Original Subscriber Brown. But I consider myself a "potent" cover-to-cover reader. Therefore, I rise to hail as "able" and soon to become "famed" The Voter's Dream cartoon in this week's TIME. Verily Cartoonist Barbour has drawn...
...been nothing really worthy of my talents. Picking winners has been as easy as prognosticating the presidential election. Send a stamped, addressed envelope, by the way, and I'll give you the inside dope on any state. Wall Street friends have asked me to make no public announcement for fear of the effect it would have on the market. Joe, Junior, saucy little brat, asks me to make it clear I mean the stock market and not the second hand fruity market...
Citizens of Chicago were thus reminded that the ugly men who have supplanted the silk-hatted drivers of hansom cabs, were at war again. Policemen, whom taxi-drivers mortally hate and fear, could find no more definite clues to the burning than the likelihood that Checker cabbies had planned a mortal strategy. The sluggings, thefts, bombings, bumpings into and off, the strange noises of speedy warfare in the streets, continued in Chicago...
Other excerpts: "We must maintain our navy and our army in such fashion thatt we shall have complete defense of our homes from even the fear of foreign invasion...
...poetry must be irritating to the skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought to kneel to worship the brave hero who should defy the current cake of though. Someone has said,--"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread", but I question whether the world should ever have advanced had we never had these so called "fools". A study of historical progress might seem then, according to this thesis, a study of fools in chronological order beginning with Socrates and following through with Erasmus, Copernicus, Bruno...