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...Moscow anxiety was acute lest Realmleader Hitler sidetrack Britain and France into a more mutual pact against unprovoked air aggression in Western Europe, leaving the Eastern Locarno barren and betrayed. What the Soviet Union fears is that some day Europe's Capitalist Powers will realize where their interest lies, namely in a drastic settlement of Eastern Europe's frontier problems at Bolshevik Russia's expense...
...down the West Coast through San Francisco and Los Angeles, wound up its first touring season in Denver in July 1932 (see map). Next season the tour began in Boston, Mass., hopped from town to town in the Middle Atlantic States and closed in Easton, Pa. Producer Stebbins, worried lest Southern audiences might resent a Negro's impersonation of the Deity, invited a group of Southern editors, led by Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution, to review the play in Washington. They went home singing the praises of The Green Pastures so loudly that in October 1933 it began...
...lest we forget, one of the concerns which have been doing business with the Nationalizers of Women at Moscow is the American Metal Company...
Rushing into the waiting room at five o'clock, he glanced at his watch in an agony lest he be late. He lit a cigarette. He put it out. She didn't come. He got up. He sat down. Where...
...Dickens was "a simple and robust genius," thinks his "most constant and strongest emotion" was self-pity. A divided character all his life, says Kingsmill, Dickens was half-humorous, half-sentimental. Because he never succeeded in reconciling his two attitudes, he became "an incurable emotional hypochondriac, living in fear lest any breath of fresh air should penetrate into the hothouse of his inner life." Dickens' marriage was unhappy, but he did little to gain popular sympathy when, after separating from his wife, who had lived with him 22 years, borne him ten children, he published an announcement and defense...