Word: frightens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revelation of these crimes was not the result of any action taken by the Executive. . . . When discovery was threatened, instead of aid and assistance from the Executive Branch there were hurried efforts to suppress testimony, to discourage witnesses, to spy upon investigators and finally, by trumped-up indictment, to frighten and deter them from the pursuit. . . . With what patience shall we greet the libelous suggestion that, after all, these are but incidents provoked by the demoralization attendant upon the Great War? . . . Shall we forget that no taint of dishonesty or corruption has ever attached to any man who held public...
They were not the sort of knavish sprites that frighten housewives, pinch old men sleeping, and mislead night-wanderers. No, they were kindly imps. "Every one of the Brownies does good," once said Palmer Cox, "without any thought of reward. Every one of my Brownie books is packed with morals, but I don't think that the children who read them have the least idea that they're there." If the children had, the Brownie books might not have become as they did, standbys in every household...
...Story. Renard, lusting for chicken fricasee, disguises herself as a nun and attempts to make off with the Cock, but is foiled by the alertness of the Cat and the Goat, who frighten her away. Renard tries again, disguised as a tramp, and, with the lure of sweetmeats, almost gets her way with the Cock. She begins to pluck the screaming fowl when the Cat and the Goat again come to the rescue and dispatch the marauder, ending the piece with a dance of triumph...
...Grave and stately in appearance," says the "Nation," "Dr. Eliot is not in reality an austere man. Even a slight intimacy reveals geniality, kindness, and humor; but his inability to trifle with the truth, his scorn of insincerity and affectation, and his courageous frankness of utterance sometimes frighten the timid. His spoken and written style is a faithful expression of his character. It is a style without applied ornament, without excess of kind, the utterance of a just and valiant man. Though strong-willed and self-assured, he sought to make his policies prevail not by the exercise of autocratic...
...assurance of her own financial and political solidity, staid England has resigned herself to an impending interlude of Labor government. But it is evident that the rule of these heretofore political pariahs is being tolerated only as an interlude, to serve perhaps as a horrible example which will frighten the more conservative elements of the other two parties into a firm and workable coalition...