Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children! I am the Guardian of the waters and all its inhabitants, by appointment of Neptune, our Master. This joust is a menace to your safety, and contrary to the laws of divine love, and natural selection. Hence I must now protect you, my children from this, your peril...
Taking many of his cues from his predecessors in the field Mr. Edmonds does not blaze any remarkably new trail, and sometimes seems content merely, to retrace the stops of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. A story such as the "Death of Red, Peril," a tale of racing caterpillars, would indeed be famous, had Mark Twain never written his "Jumping Frog...
...State where Democrats and Republicans were winding up their hottest primary campaigns in years. Having tasted blood in 1932, the Democrats were out to mass a thumping vote and carry the state for the first time in half a century. Badly demoralized by local defeats, the Republicans sensed their peril. Pennsylvania's voters prepared to go to the polls this week and select their party candidates for the November elections. For Governor- The regular Democratic State Committee backed George Hansell Earle 3rd's gubernatorial candidacy. Candidate Earle, 43, is vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co. For 20 years...
...rape story is revived, feeling on the waterfront runs high. Lonnie is again arrested, escapes just before he is lynched. His flight fills four scenes with excitement. As Lonnie's peril increases and the play becomes more intense, its shabby cloak of propaganda happily falls away. Stevedore turns into a glorious melodrama in the grand manner of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. As a finale, the Negroes defend their homes from a white-trash mob led by a red-headed bully named Mitch, as lively a scene as ever came from the pages of Hugo...
...great composer, had designed. . . . If each of you today will send a tribute, small or great. . . ." Toscanini's birthday presents amounted to some $50,000, made over $400,000 that the Philharmonic has collected since Harry Harkness Flagler, president of the Society, announced that the Orchestra was in peril of its life (TIME, Feb. 5). The S O S (Save Our Symphony) Campaign was launched in Mr. Flagler's Park Avenue home. There he informed 70 likely givers that $500,000 would have to be raised to assure the Orchestra's existence for the next three seasons...