Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weighty women last year sought out those seven stores. Saleswomen, robust like themselves, and no chits, give them courteous attention. They dare try on dresses without the fear of splitting sleeve-seams or waistbands. They can slip into dresses without standing on tiptoe to draw their hips narrower...
Last week the Equitable Trust Co., from the great grey pile of its new building in Broad Street, Manhattan, distributed a financial advertisement of fearful implications. Some businessmen already fear a depression impends over...
...General Andrews was bold in saying anything. Others the past few years have been almost apologetic when they announced formation of new institutes.* Patent was their fear that their combinations to improve trade might be misinterpreted as combination to restrain trade...
...anxious observer may tremble for the fate of the reading period with such quantity of competing attractions. But reading lists cannot be pursued twenty-four hours a day, and diversions such as these can refresh the weary minds with good effect. On the whole the only fear to be expressed is that the present calendar be changed, for Boston has not always been, so fortunate...
...writer Julian Green shows unmistakable talent, as a psychologist he is convincing beyond question, but as a novelist he has yet to achieve something of universality. As in his first novel, Avarice House, not a single character has charm or kindness-nothing but selfishness, fear, jealousy. Adrienne is said to be beautiful, but her submissiveness, her exasperating inhibitions, make her so unattractive that it is difficult to be as sorry for her as one no doubt should...