Word: perillous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher of India: "Reaching Berlin on what I said might be my last European tour (for I am 65), I deprecated the notion that there, is in the Orient a 'Yellow Peril,' save in the sense that Christian civilizations in the West, crumbling now, might commit suicide, while the Orient will survive always...
This week, if he keeps safe from storm by night and peril in Canada, will arrive in the U. S. the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Lord* Bishop of London. Guest of the Department of Religious Education of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, he will spend six weeks here, lecturing at colleges and schools. "You might also arrange," he wrote an executive, "for me to play tennis or squash raquets or golf with young men, as I am still playing all of these pretty well...
...prayer for Dictators Mussolini and Pangalos, humored the pan-Greek leanings of his congregation. Arrested by the irate Italian police for praying for General Pangalos, he said: "You know that General Pangalos and Dictator Mussolini are great friends. They are both Dictators. They have both recently escaped from the peril of assassination. What more simple than to offer up prayers for them both...
...logic of a star halfback who turns professional (Red Grange) ; a moss-grown professor's vivid, wistful wife; a crisp instructress who secretly, cherishing lost youth's glamor, rouges her ear-tips. Time and again this book comes alarmingly near to telling just what that divine peril, youth's glamor, actually...
...evidence shows beyond all doubt that the Navy and Marine Corps personnel who were killed met their deaths while heroically carrying out their duty in the face of imminent peril, of which they were thoroughly cognizant, and that therefore their deaths were directly in the line of duty and in no degree due to their own misconduct...