Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abdul Hamid became more & more a prey to his fears." related Philadelphia's harem Princess. "The Sultan kept a revolver in his hand by night and by day. . . . He shot his own child when the little one lifted a revolver that lay on the table. The playful hand might be the instrument of a woman's revenge and the Sultan knew better than anyone else that no tool is too weak to inflict a death wound. . . . This fear, this perpetual watchfulness, required that the concubines must be changed from night to night, so that his very pleasures were...
...regretful commentaries on New England's changing folkways. Author Carroll's sympathies are conservative; the "few foolish ones" of her title refer to the dwindling minority who remain stubbornly loyal to the old U. S. traditions. She compares them to birds whose love of home overcomes their fear of winter. Like As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones is a quiet and well-told tale of the second rank...
What with Venizelos in exile, and the rebels totally brought to bay, things were beginning to quiet down in Athens. Yet at high noon, yesterday, the men were aroused from their customary places in the cafes by a penetrating shriek, "Long live Venizelos, and the revolution." Fearing a new uprising, they rushed out en masse to locate the culprit, only to find that the object of their anxiety was no more than a trained parrot. Rebel sympathizers now fear for the life of the parrot...
Several men even went so far as to say that they had not gone out for any activity for fear that the time it would take would necessarily diminish the more solid benefits to be derived from the University which they had bought with their tuition fees...
That Washington has been so quick in exploding the textile industry's "scare," can be amply explained by the fear of authorities that similar emotional appeals to racial animosity may be resorted to by other pressure groups, thus disguising our real national interest as represented in trade with Japan, and precipitating a trade war. Should this nation embark on such a trade war with Japan, officials fear that our foreign trade might be realt a blow far more severe than that which the textile interests claim is threatening them...