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...cuts its upper teeth first, and usually does away with it. The birth of twins is an omen of disaster. If a banana tree sprouts fruit not at the end of the stalk but near the middle, the plant is promptly cut down and the owner is considered in peril of death. If a dog is remarkably lucky at hunting, it is thought to be catching game to be served at its owner's funeral. Aberrations in the behavior of animals, sexual and otherwise, are to be dreaded. If dogs mate indoors, or with pigs, they are set down...
...records of our courts and the public press affords ample proof that alliances between Americans of either sex with titled foreigners are fraught with peril and almost invariably end in disaster. ... It is not a source of satisfaction to see our marriage institution and our courts made mere incidents to the purchase and sale of foreign titles...
...Mayor lay abed in the hospital with a special bodyguard of Revere police on duty day & night in the next room. To call went the Secretary of the Mayors' Club of Massachusetts, who learned that Mayor O'Brien had been assaulted several times before. Horrified at the peril to which Mayors are exposed, the Secretary wrote each & every mayor in Massachusetts urging constant bodyguards for protection from annoyed citizens. James Henry Roberts Cromwell, who once warned, "I can see a lot more peril from the right wingers than from the left'' (TIME...
What they had done was to peril the sanctity of multilateral treaties by signing with Germany an exchange of notes professing to acknowledge Realmleader Hitler's "right" to violate the naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles in return for his promise "forever" binding Germany not to build a navy more than 35% as potent as Great Britain's (TIME, June...
Naturally, there are dangers presented by this Revolution. If complete flexibility for individual freedom should result in a lowering of standards, the situation will be pregnant with peril. If the Faculty were to become a menagerie of scholars, and teachers were to become as prehistoric as the dinosaur, Harvard would be little more than an over-crowded...