Word: perilous
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George V of England: " A royal commission pronounced Buckingham Palace a firetrap with its labyrinth of draughty hallways, inflammable partitions, old-fashioned wiring and heating installations, spoke of it as ' fraught with peril.' The Palace, like all English Government buildings, is not insured...
...political situation in Germany continues to be fraught with peril. A putsch, not dissimilar from the Kapp Putsch of 1920, is an imminent possibility. The object of such a movement would be primarily to prevent the country falling into the hands of Communists, who have been engineering a plot to seize the Government for some time. If the coup d'état were successful, a Fascist dictatorship would be established, followed, no doubt, by the reëstablishment of the Monarchy...
...Jewish Tribune (New York) published an open letter to Mr. Hearst: "Surely you must know that Mr. Ford has not yet rid himself of the 'Jewish peril' obsession. How can you, who have so repeatedly condemned this monomania, now seriously propose for President...
...hand, he dragged her after him to the dregs of a Chinese city--6, 560 miles! There "midst horrid shapes, and shrieks and sights unholy" the battle for purity took place a veritable wrestling match. Then came the long hard road back to respectability and New York--through peril, toil and pain 9,730 miles...
...have no respect for the virgin white margin of a new book, is to moralize with Don Juan. My suggestion is that the Library provide at the desk slips of gummed onion-skin paper such as are used by Law students, which can be attached to the page in peril, covered with critical and artistic scum which floats to the surface of the defiler's mind, and later removed when their appropriateness is past. GLENN C. BRAMBLE...