Word: perils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned, away from the Democrats and in favor of the Republicans." It was one of the first such gleams in months. Along with gloom at New Deal doings, there has lately crept into his dispatches a note of despair at his own inability to make citizens understand their peril. "No amount of explanation seems able to make the country see. . . ." he writes. And: "I am not sure that enough of the public can be brought to see the deeper implications...
...Sanctum late last evening with mixed feelings: Haile Selassic prays in the mountains.... Italian forces invade Ethiopia.... There's an Oriental sky over the Charles tonight.... London assures Paris; Paris assures London.... Soviet plans to build bath tubs and bakeries for Eskimos.... Roosevelt warns war a potent peril.... Farley designs a new stamp.... Bulgaria foils conspiracy to overthrow King Boris.... Japanese impatient with Nanking.... Women rebel against food prices.... Skirts to be longer this fall.... Stocks fall sharply.... Largest peacetime treasury deficit.... Wheat prices...
...cuts its upper teeth first, and usually does away with it. The birth of twins is an omen of disaster. If a banana tree sprouts fruit not at the end of the stalk but near the middle, the plant is promptly cut down and the owner is considered in peril of death. If a dog is remarkably lucky at hunting, it is thought to be catching game to be served at its owner's funeral. Aberrations in the behavior of animals, sexual and otherwise, are to be dreaded. If dogs mate indoors, or with pigs, they are set down...
...records of our courts and the public press affords ample proof that alliances between Americans of either sex with titled foreigners are fraught with peril and almost invariably end in disaster. ... It is not a source of satisfaction to see our marriage institution and our courts made mere incidents to the purchase and sale of foreign titles...
...Mayor lay abed in the hospital with a special bodyguard of Revere police on duty day & night in the next room. To call went the Secretary of the Mayors' Club of Massachusetts, who learned that Mayor O'Brien had been assaulted several times before. Horrified at the peril to which Mayors are exposed, the Secretary wrote each & every mayor in Massachusetts urging constant bodyguards for protection from annoyed citizens. James Henry Roberts Cromwell, who once warned, "I can see a lot more peril from the right wingers than from the left'' (TIME...