Word: lest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take charge of the defense. Robed in a handsome gown stitched together by patriotic female admirers, he received homage on all sides for daring to defend the alleged perpetrators of a crime so malodorous. Anti-Fascist lawyers had refused to undertake the defense, professing horror. Fascist lawyers had refused, lest Fascismo be tarred with additional infamy. Above such Roberto Farinacci soared...
...Prince maintained a complete silence. His friends pointed out that it is remarkable, to say the least, that Mme. Lambrino has thus suddenly appeared in Paris, with a Roumanian passport, although it has been widely reported that she was being detained semi-forcibly in Roumania by the Roumanian Government, lest she leave Roumania and rouse all the old scandals once more...
...lest some goggle-eyed callow youth still think that the reading of this travesty of a tragedy is all play and no work let him take into consideration the acute banality of the story. THE SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE epitomizes the novel as follows...
...Prince. At Birmingham, most celebrated of British industrial centres, Edward of Wales visited the local Trade Fair and stepped upon a pair of scales to oblige their maker. The pointer spun, stopped at 137 pounds, to the satisfaction of the Prince who has tapered off his meat lately, lest he grow fat, and his drink, lest his tendency to nervousness increase. He is said to be "setting the fashion for modest four-course dinners...
...said to have ordered the burial to take place in May, when Lady Zaharoff's favorite flowers will be in bloom. He is understood to have declared that he will never visit Monte Carlo again, lest he be reminded unbearably of the days he spent there with...