Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scribble away in some high artificial style to delight the elect, he cannot hope to do both well at one and the same time. I shall leave the envious reader to determine whether any writers of the March issue have thus erred in their art. I fear that some have embellished a typewritten sheet with the flourishes of an illuminated manuscript...
...March 7, that John A. Brashear, former distinguished astronomer of Pittsburgh was unknown to you.† We who knew him feel that you missed much. When his wife preceded him in death he wrote this timely epitaph: "Too often we've studied the stars together, to have any fear of the night." I've wondered whether anything was so poetically and appropriately written of him. when he went away from his beloved Pittsburgh-"into the night." MRS. JAMES A. HUSTON...
...Italians were arguing in the streets with shiny steel. Five men lay dead at last, according to report. Two dead were Italian, and all the living knew that Italy might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear stalked last week, with the numbing rumor that he who fired the first shot was an Italian agent provocateur. Why not? A few more such incidents, and Il Duce can mature his reputed scheme to seize Albania under pretext of "intervention to maintain Albanian sovereignty...
...been accepted. Many of the paintings would hardly, however, be seen elsewhere than at the Independent's tableau. Wandering through the labyrinth of cubist, futuristic, abstract, satirical, constructionistic, or caricaturistic themes, spectators were impressed with the thought that each of these artists had expressed himself with no fear of jury. To be seen were...
...years a civil war raged between the Reds and the so-called White army, with the whites succumbing because the peasants refused to aid them through fear of reinstatement of the landlords should the Reds be defeated...