Word: frightener
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...once produced an invention of his own in the garden of the Palais-Royal: a cannon rigged with an adjustable burning glass over the touchhole to go off just at noon each sunny day. From 1786 to August 1914, when it was silenced by General Joseph Gallieni lest it frighten war-worried Parisians, the meridian gun barked on. Fortnight ago Minister of Education Anatole de Monzie decided Louis' idea was still a good one. Reconditioned, the meridian gun will bark noon again in the Palais-Royal garden. But since Paris is on daylight saving time, it will now only...
...gold-standard, sound-money platform. At Des Moines he shocked his followers by declaring that a few months prior, the U. S. had been within two weeks of being forced off gold. To the Republicans the gold standard and "hard money" became a political fetish with which to frighten the electorate. But the electorate refused to be frightened and the Republicans lost the Presidency. Last January in the Senate inflationists mustered 18 votes for the Bryanesque 16-to-1 free coinage of silver, most discredited of the quantitative money proposals, and their drive seemed definitely halted (TIME...
...newspaper, add to its small circulation. Last month he picked on Mr. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 26). In an abusive, threatening editorial he execrated the New Yorker as an arrogant Yankee, retailed a story that Mr. Hutton had instructed his employes to drive motorboats through neighboring preserves in order to frighten ducks from them...
James Middleton Cox, the party's 1920 nominee, urged his Ohio to vote a Change. At Mineola, N. Y. John William Davis, 1924 nominee, said approximately the same thing. At Troy Alfred Emanuel Smith, 1928 nominee, ridiculed President Hoover for trying to frighten the nation...
...minority, whether it is destined to held office or not, can be effective as a prod to those in power, and a large progressive vote can frighten a government controlled by vested interests into correcting at least its grosser delinquencies. Moreover, a strong Socialist vote will have the effect of consolidating the issues, which are not properly brought out by Democratic-Republican rivalry. It will give the conservative stand one core, instead of its separate and erratic spheres of action in the two old parties, and will make a vote for, or a vote against this stand, both more decisive...