Word: frightener
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...Author. One fact about Charles Kay Ogden would be enough to frighten most plain readers. With Ivor Armstrong Richards, another Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he wrote a book with the fearsome title, The Meaning of Meaning (1923). No mess of metaphysics but an attempt to examine the working efficiency of language, this book was the starting point of Basic English. His position as student of psychology and language has brought him in touch with many a learned head in other countries. From his Orthological Institute of Cambridge and his bachelor London house, crowded with switchboards and phonographs, Ogden directs...
...these things, it will not be long before its present legislative support has stolen away, and it will have to decide whether it is going to continue to do them without that support. Rule without the check of parliamentary method has a name, dictatorship. It should not frighten anyone. But it should make people think, and decide whether they want a fascist (reactionary) dictatorship, or the socialist dictatorship of freedom...
...from cash on hand, but in greenbacks. The Ways & Means Committee allowed the bill to lie fallow because 1) the House, as it did during the last Congress, would pass it if it got a chance; 2) the Administration, busy borrowing billions of dollars, did not want to frighten the country with greenbackery...
...Capitol architect, was assigned to drive them off. He rigged a series of automobile horns around the building, blew them all periodically by pressing a button. When he pressed, the starlings took flight. When he stopped they alighted. Then he sent men with toy balloons on long strings to frighten the starlings from the ledges. The starlings cheeped derisively. In despair he wrote the Department of Agriculture.* Last week the Department suggested that the only remedy might be to use deadly hydrocyanic acid gas-a ticklish job necessitating careful preparations lest Congressmen and bystanders fall dead. Architect Lynn then persuaded...
...this activity can, of course, have but one end in view and that is to intimidate voters so that there will be no doubt about the outcome of the plebescite to be held next year. It is, however, likely to have the opposite effect for while they may frighten the populace into voting for union with Germany, this outburst of Nasi activity is sure to call forth violent protests from France which will probably take the form of demands that some methods other than a plebescite be resorted to in order to ascertain the possession of the Saar. There...