Word: perils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present rate in the U. S., the number of biers will surpass the number of cradles. Blind and foolish arc these ignorant destroyers who believe they can efficaciously combat the Depression by sterility. There are in the U. S. 11,500,000 Negroes of extraordinary fecundity. . . . The yellow peril is nothing. We will encounter an Africanized America, in which the white race will end by being suffocated by the fertile grandsons of Uncle Tom. Are we to see within a century a Negro in the White House...
...blame a man who, fearing for the future of his country, tries to spread the news of her grave peril. But it becomes a little wearying to find the eminent journalist, Mark Sullivan, spawning article after article with but one theme: that the Administration has two wings of opinion, one right, one left; that the Right has a monopoly over the good, the true, the beautiful but is lax in asserting its eminence; and that the Left is composed of young radical professors who combine fluttery, unsound minds with amazing, sinister shrewdness in hypnotizing the President. It appears that...
...Pussyfoot was attacking with all his forces. America had just succumbed; the swords and lances of blue-nosed morality and pseudo-science were hacking and slashing at Merrie England. A noble tradition was in peril--who would defend it? Launcelot came forward in the venerable person of George Saintsbury, to champion the cause of the first and fairest of the immortal trio, Wine, Woman, and Song. The victory went to the good cause, and Mr. Pussyfoot retired ignominiously to his American domain, there to reign supreme for 14 years. When finally his oppressive rule galled too much, and his subjects...
...vigor on the same subject that last week the Japanese Embassy was officially and fruitlessly protesting. "There is no doubt that Japan is going through a period of 'dynamic imperialism,' " wrote the dynamic Duce. "Two armies confront each other at the frontiers of Russia and Manchuria. The peril of war exists. This event does not interest only Russia and Japan. It also involves China and the United States and, directly or indirectly, England, France, Italy and Holland...
Condemning Japan and blathering about the Yellow Peril is as senseless as it is unfair. Forced to open itself to the Western world, and then forced to industrialize so that its land and resources have become hopelessly inadequate for supporting its rapidly increasing population, the history of Japan must appear as tragedy on a grand scale. Particularly if one accepts the definition of tragedy as the collision of two goods--or, in this case, of the collision of two inevitable forces...