Word: imperilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revels he tried to separate her from her consort, who took the occasion to murder her. Directed and acted with Teutonic power, the picture leaves a lingering impression of the heart's treacheries. If it is widely enough shown in the U. S. its heroine (Marlene Dietrich) may imperil the favor now accorded Greta Garbo...
...injurious methods of dieting, and by bringing themselves below their normal healthy weight, while others are dangerously overweight, and "Whereas, there are at present no adequate tables which tell women what they ought to weigh, therefore be it "Resolved, that we urge the women of America not to imperil their health and that of future generations by reducing methods other than those advocated by reliable physicians...
...there was great political trepidation both in the Senate and out, for it was realized that any action, no matter how trivial, by the League would arouse the irreconcilables to new efforts, give them something new to talk about, and possibly imperil the election of pro-Court Senators next fall...
...Trotzky broke his pledge to the Party Congress to abstain from activities which might imperil Party unity. His present activities might engage the Party in a renewed controversy, which is not wanted and would be dangerous...
...there any normal father in all the land who was going to bribe a public official and imperil his reputation and character, who would select his only son to carry the bribe? The selection of that only son was the very indicia that the man who sent the money had nothing in his mind which was evil or corrupt. . . . Does a bribed official give or send to a briber a promissory note for the bribe...