Word: frightener
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...gown, squeals "Whatever mahst you think ahv me!," shows little of the high class lady's precipitousness toward adultery. Even the unexpected arrival of Prince Alfred, his polite donning of Josef's brass buttons and his performance of the candelabra ritual serve only to embarrass Josef and frighten Marie. In the end the Prince has met Marie's mistress, Josef has done his master a good turn, and candlelight is indicated for both parlor and pantry. Good shot: Josef posing as the Prince, looking unhappy when the Prince's telephone rings, brightening when Marie suggests...
...social well-being the national income is so uncertain a quantity and the conditions under which it is earned of such great contributing importance that the liberal economist's confident assertion that such and such a bit, or even program, of "meddling" will diminish the national income need not frighten us very much...
...more will hunters be allowed to trap their game with circling bush-fires, to use poison, dazzling lights, nets, pits, snares, set guns. Gunners and photographers must not frighten animals with snorting automobiles, roaring airplanes...
...that. In Science, such men as J. W. N. Sullivan (TIME, Sept. 5, 1932; Oct. 23), in Art and Literature, Julius Meier-Graefe, are not so much sentries as interpreters. Bilingual, they can read the barbaric ensigns of these seeming foreigners and translate them into symbols that will not frighten the commonest sense. Interpreter Meier-Graefe's biography of crazy Painter van Gogh is known already to a few U. S. readers (the Medici Society, London, first published it in a limited de luxe edition, 1922). Significant of the increased interest in left-wing artists and writers is this...
...have settled down, and wish to forge ahead in the work, and not to be held back by reviewing for a glorified quiz. The requirement that definite marks be turned in at these times to the Dean's office has only served in the past to annoy the professor, frighten the Freshman, and insult the Senior. By abolishing, moreover, this purely technical requirement, the instructor will be afforded far more freedom in running his course...