Word: perils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TERROR PERIL SENDS COLD CHILL UP FRENCH SPINES...
Brooklyn is aggrieved. News stories of murders, bank robberies and transit line accidents in that city are sent out under New York date lines, robbing Brooklyn of its just share or notoriety. But Mr. H. E. Bullis of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is aroused to the peril in which the fair name of Brooklyn stands, and he is leading a crusade to "put Brooklyn back into the news...
...high that loomed out of the dusk, a black and ominous spike such as affrights the keels of lowlier boats, hard on the starboard side. "Left," signaled Commander Landsdowne on the bridge; the rudders turned, the Shenandoah paused, writhed, and came around, her propellers biting the wind. The peril was left behind; so also, for a moment, was the course. Then the little light of a freight train that labored along far below pointed out the way, which lay directly along the route of the Texas Pacific R. R. After midnight, the ship -that haughty ship that almost stubbed...
...sculpture was spectacular. Its result is a series of bronzes-fierce, elemental figures, full of the mystery and terror and power of the jungle. A warrior, armed and tense, snarling; a chieftain, peering at one from under lowering brow; a nude woman and two children fleeing some grim jungle peril; a sorcerer dancing a mad dance...
...responsibility rests on the infinite God that made him. I do what I can for him, kindly, carefully, as fairly as I can. . . . Just as the doctor finds that his patient must die, so it came to me that this client was in deadly peril of his life. Do you think that if I had thought there was one chance in a thousand to save him I would not have taken that chance? You may say I should not. That if I believed he was guilty, I should not have tried to save...