Word: perillous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...folly and danger of such a reversion to pre-war distrust need no elaboration. Even if, however, the peril to friendly understanding between two powerful nations latent in this attitude of suspicion be over-looked, it must yet be regretted that the Transcript chose to strike so discordant a note in a day of general welcome and rejoicing...
Last Command. The General's heir, Umberto Obregon, 24, has possessed since he was 14 years old a Last Command from his father, who has spent at least a generation in imminent peril of Death. Command...
...facilitate gesturing; and from the unreality of the gesture which the young man made while saying, "We denounce." People who denounce in their own words do not need to study their gestures. Moreover, many a Norris phrase was there: "bankruptcy has stalked," "the spectre of peasantry," "fraught with peril," "free farms, free homes, and free...
Janey's insistence is cut short by the arrival of her Anglo-Saxon swains, who defy all manner of peril and whisk her off in the very plane that brought her. Her ingratitude for their bravery displays itself in scenes and sorrowings, until her hero appears in the night, tracked to her very window by posses of police...
...bronze group well rewarded their efforts. Ten feet high, on a granite base, it shows a young pioneer couple. The man has a gun, the woman a baby. Side by side, they stand looking in the direction of the possible peril. The park around the statue is neat and luxuriant. No other U. S. village the size of Elmwood has yet shown the wisdom or the ability to adorn itself so well...