Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most Americans the possibility of another war seems no more than a bad dream of some dyspeptic scare-mongers. To the French it seems the most likely and the least desirable of future events. Clemenceau himself has seen two invasions of la patrie and has seen German signatures in the waste basket "because of necessity". "If a man fails to back his check would you bankers trust him for another?" Undoubtedly not; yet some still say the French are imperialistic because they mistrust Germany; and that the pessimistic warning of another Junker monarchy is absurd. The answer is "we have...
...University reader exempt from this classification. Theoretically we should furnish an approximation to that ideal public which the journalists claim is the sine qua non of an ideal newspaper; practically we are among the consistent devotees of the scare headline; we, too, are afflicted with the prurient curiosity" mentioned by Mr. Storey. Yet the fact that the more stable journals find a considerable sale in the University indicates that we read the lurid sheets for amusement rather than for information...
...exhibitions of Florentine illustrated books (Savonarola tracts and Scare Reppresentazioni) now being shown at the Fogg Art Museum is of the greatest interest, not only for the study of Italian woodcuts, but as showing the beginnings of the art of book illustration. In these first illustrated books the book page was regarded as a unit, with text and illustration in perfect harmony. The pictures in general were not intended to apply to a particular passage of the text, but were illustrations of some principle of episode which would serve to arouse the reader's religious emotions. Certain stock illustration appear...
...question would be far more worthy of serious discussion if its presentation at this time were not so obviously part of the wide-spread "red" scare which still grips no small portion of our population. We are paying too much attention to the "red" menace as it is; to put through such a bill at this time would make us the laughing stock of all sensible people...
...labor unions commit and the mistakes that occur but gives little or no publicity in most cases to the good things that the unions are continually trying to do. The public should appreciate that labor unions are far from perfect and should not judge them so harshly when these scare stories, which are usually far from accurate, appear in the newspapers. In all fairness, more emphasis should be laid on the good that such organizations are accomplishing...