Word: perils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...dreams of Columbus and the Cabots, of Gilbert and Hudson, thwarted by the inconvenient location of America, are likely to be fulfilled by the modern ingenuity which finds land no obstacle to rapid trasportation. The "Northwest Passage", which lured countless mariners to peril and hardship, may now be opened by the persistent navigators...
...nights. The war, with all its suffering and atrocities, has been an anesthetic. We have become too accustomed to the cries of the oppressed to have them vibrate painfully upon our nerves and conscience. The enthusiasm produced in the fever of the war days has given place to the peril of waning idealism. Nothing could be more dangerous, if these are the facts, than to close our minds and hearts, and to drift on. I am not a prophet of pessimism, but I am aware of that ancient saying: "He who cries peace, peace, when there is no peace, shall...
...comes frankly because ugly words spoken about his France had reached his quiet seashore retreat; and his mission, "which is a mission from no one and a journey with no personal end" is an effort to reunite France and America against a peril greater than that...
...more allusion to the illusion, and we have done. As the moth must have its yellow flame, so must Harvard have its yellow peril; yet when the tempting colors have been smudged by rains, and the screaming message out-screamed by the allurements of the Tiddledewinks team, then will we listen one again, indulgently smiling, to echoes of hollow laughter along Mount Auburn street, reverberated from the recesses of an empty stein...