Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power; thirdly, that the principle laid down by Lord Balfour is now so firmly embroidered on the warp and woof of Reparations and War Debts that to dis entangle it would rend the fiscal fabric of Europe. Unwittingly, the angry pixie had given his Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites are so unprincipled (and probably Bolshevik, too, by gad!) that they even repudiate Lord Balfour, and say that France is worse than Russia ! Next day in the House of Commons rash Pixie Snowden, still defiant, received a Conservative broadside. Sir Austen Chamberlain...
Somehow one has always sought comfort in the hope that whatever else may happen in a changing world the Boston Evening Transcript would stand put. Never seriously indicted as a "scare" sheet the old comforter of Back Bay has staked its little all upon the satisfactory handling of the expected. Its news material emerges from the editorial offices with the tough parts removed and furnishes its established clientel a not too stimulating contact with a busy world of affairs...
...mystery plays has been from baffling plot down to a presentation of grotesque effects and nothing more, the authors of "The Skull" cannot be too severely taken to task. Most good plots have been exhausted by now, but there is still the possibility of giving the public a good scare about once an act. We don't guarantee the goodness of these scares, but no effort is spared in an endeavor to put great numbers of them across...
...Bloklund (TIME, Aug. 27), long since nicknamed by correspondents "Blunt Beelaerts." From London, where he chanced to be last week, the Jonkheer instructed Her Majesty's diplomatic representatives in France and Belgium to demand official confirmation or denial of Dagblad's charges. Rarely has a news "scare story" been taken so seriously by a phlegmatic minister of the Dutch Crown...
...Harvard: Fair and Cooler," he has done his-best to scare up a half dozen pages worth of "human interest" in one of our oldest and most tradition-bound colleges. In proving the central point of his article: "that Harvard men suffer from a painful tradition that they must appear to be indifferent when they are not," he has as usual fallen far short of success. But once again he has been moderately successful in being amusing. That the Crimson has taken Mr. Roberts' penny shocker seriously only adds to the entertainment of the general public. Cornell Daily...