Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nomination, thereby killing Kansas' hopes of a Landon-Vandenberg ticket. Two days later the Michigan Senator arrived in Cleveland, primed to add his bit to the dying "Stop Landon" movement. Oldtime Senator Moses, manager for Candidate Knox, spluttered angrily about Landon attempts to stampede "a deliberative assembly" and "frighten" delegates by extravagant claims of strength. By radio the New Hampshire Old Guardsman boomed: "This is a crisis and it must be treated as such. It must be dealt with as a matter of principle." Chimed Candidate Vandenberg: "I'm not interested in bandwagons. I'm interested...
...remarks about their water tower. In St. Louis the audience was impolite. In Denver up-to-date brothel-keepers showed their awareness of his approach by redecorating their cribs in pre-Raphaelite style, while the girls amazed their miner customers by screaming "Ut-terly utter!" Leadville, Colo, tried to frighten Oscar off with threatening letters, but nothing happened to him when he went there. When Griggsville, Kans. wired him an invitation to lecture on esthetics, he replied: "Begin by changing the name of your town." His tour netted Oscar ?1,200, but his expenses came to nearly that...
...alphabet." A good salesman, he toured the U. S. lecturing in his book's behalf, trying-to rouse the State legislatures to protect this home growth by copyright. The book caught on, in spite of a frontispiece of Webster resembling a porcupine, which a hostile reviewer said would frighten even a patriotic child...
...moving about with appropriate mystery their evils to perform. There is a mysterious old tower which houses, one is cryptically informed, some of the weirdest specimens of taxidermical skill, a dilapidated old boat landing where sport the largest and most vicious crabs imaginable and numerous other terrible appurtenances to frighten the timid and delight the morbid...
...women. As they chained the squat, tattooed booty, the clubhouse of Papuan men spewed out a phalanx of rescuers. Schmidt raised his rifle, shot and killed three. On trial at Rabaul on the neighboring island of New Britain, Schmidt's sole defense was that he had planned to frighten the blacks and what was so bad about killing a few Papuans anyway? Old Ludwig was sentenced...