Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual. There were many who were openly scoffers, asking jocularly "Wonder when the Crime will start printing on yellow paper?" but when night came with all the terrors of darkness, these same ones, anxiously tested the strength of their rope fire-escapes. And this is not strange, considering the scare headlines in yesterday's CRIMSON, for the prospect of being thrown from a curtained taxi-cab into the Waldrof after being treated with tar and feathers is far from pleasant...
...will on the twentieth anniversary of the death of its maker. All of the former viving heirs are assembled in his former home, a most devilishly sombre, dreary place, whose atmosphere is far from brightened by the old housekeeper, a West Indian. The business of this character is to scare everyone as often as possible which is pretty often, judging by the shrieks of the female audience. As a creator of spooky, nerve racking tension she is quite effective, but as a West Indian servant she seems a bit overdrawn...
...Yugo-Slavia, with the proviso that both places are attached to Fiume for 99 years; the Free State to be governed by a mixed supreme government composed of delegates from Italy, Yugo-Slavia and Fiume. Last Week Mussolini began to mass troops in Istria, intending no doubt to scare the Belgrade Government...
...trifle overdone, is fading. Where then can the producer turn? Possibly to Argentina, which is receiving inordinate publicity of late owing to the successful business visit of Senor Luis Angel Firpo. Japan and China have been veterans since The Mikado. The Negro rage and the grass-skirt scare are already moribund. Spain and the clatter of castanets is gone. Covered with dust are the crinoline, the harem skirt, Scotch kilts. The stage of the American revue is rapidly approaching the end of the world. Without other worlds to conquer, Russia, Egypt and the influence of dusky Florence Mills must inevitably...
...been occupied by the hated capitalists, but now a new state of things had arrived and no such anti-democratic thing would be tolerated. They demanded that the opera boxes be turned over to the proletariat. This agitation produced a result that sounds very American. There was a bomb scare. The " authorities grew excited with fancies of bomb-throwing in the opera house, when the revolutionaries saw that the capitalists still had the boxes. Precautions were necessary. The officials ordered a force of soldiers to the opera house to search all who entered, and further gave forth the regulation that...