Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boarding house, carroled loudly, "Yes, We Have No Bananas!" Cried his landlady, a Mrs. Ritter; "Ain't you never going to shut up on that tune, Smottox?" An instant later, as the "Smottox" carroled on, she heaved "a red hot frying pan" out the window "just to scare...
...earth, a playground for old and young," so its owners describe Steeplechase Pier at Atlantic City where one may have his hat blown off, his skirts blown up, ride on a merry-go-round, walk through a revolving barrel, slide down a chute into a wooden bowl, or scare his wits out of himself by a ride on a roller coaster?all by paying a modest admission fee of 50c. Strangely enough over the great amusement hall is built an apartment where the owners of the entertainment dwell, and where they have a little window where they can gaze down...
...royalist demonstration at Potsdam this week, Germany has given western Europe another scare and revived the rumors of a Hohenzohern estoration current at the time of von Hindenburg's election. It seems that during the unveiling of a tablet to the war dead of the Kaiserin Augusta Guard, General Sixt von Armin made a sensational address in which he committed himself and his audience--including the Republican troops--to unbroken fidelity to the Kaiser...
Holy Cross, rated as an easy winner over St. John's College of Brooklyn, received a bad scare Saturday. The Purple team was distinctly superior to the visitors, but three times lost opportunities to score by fumbling. One of the fumbles, on St. John's 10-yard line, resulted in the losers' only score, the St. John's quarterback running 90 yards for a touchdown after recovering the wet ball. Crowley's kicking and Kittredge's end runs were the cheering spots of the loosely-played game from a Holy Cross standpoint...
Significance. Mothers used to say "Brigham Young" instead of "bogey man" to scare their offspring. Now, soothed by the years, they are hardly aware that some 400,000 Mormons still revere the much-married patriarch who managed people by telling them to believe in him or "go to Hell across lots." This patriarch's works constitute the most vivid chapter in native religious history and an impressive section of the chronicle of the Far West...