Word: frighteningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is this dagger Justice Stone sees before him? There is certainly no resentment against the Supreme Court in the country today. Can the screechings of one or two stormy petrels in the halls of Congress frighten the secure justices of the highest court of the land? Considering the attitude of the country last May when the court voided the N.R.A. there is no possibility that public opinion will now suddenly and vindictively rise up against it. Nor has the prestige of the tribunal diminished in any degree since that time...
...twelve years as the result of rheumatic fever contracted at the age of 12, was thrown into acute agitation on reading the article. ... To read a quotation, heavily emphasized, from the lips of a leading authority on the subject that one has about three years to live would seriously frighten anyone...
...course London will be bombed in the next war, and I'll tell you why. . . . In the event of war the Germans will bomb London in order to frighten...
...They will be wrong. You cannot frighten English people that way; you will only infuriate them ... I do not disguise the fact that living in London during the next war will be uncomfortable and moderately dangerous, but London is not going to be wiped out nor is the civil population going to be exterminated...
More than this, the Premier would not say, but it was enough to frighten bear raiders who might have attacked the franc this week, after cleaning up on the belga (TIME, April 8). In Paris rumor had it that Premier Flandin will put gold "Louis" into the public's itching palm only when paying interest on French Government bonds. He might, Paris guessed, make the interest optional, say 3% paid in gold or 4½% in paper, whichever the bondholder elected...