Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bureau endeavored to correct the misinterpretation of its report. But scare of sunlight, natural and artificial, had already spread throughout the country...
...beloved officers, the friend of children and Harvard Square merchants, was informed point-blank that he was going to be "bumped off" last night, probably in cold blood. The unfriendly import of the note precipitated a furore in Cambridge police circles, possibly second only to a Harvard student riot scare. Photographic copies of the note, the fingerprints of the child on the paper, an exhaustive investigation of police archives for possible data on "Feagan's gang", formed part of the attempt to trace the criminals to their lair. The Boston Globe gets excited and suggests a crime in front page...
Professor Harry Elmer Barnes has delivered another ultimatum to the world. Defying his critics to "scare him away," the expounder of historical sociology at Smith College serves notice that although of course he did not mean to begin a controversy in his recent address before the scientific congress he will now light to the finish. Then in a delicate touch the professor remarks that if his opponents had only kept quiet there would have been no public discussion of the question. But of course if they do take notice of him. Dr. Barnes will "raise the ante and stay...
...blithe Victorian crones who swept with muffs and bonnets about the city, never had their shoes off while the fleet was in, stood behind a nude statue in a museum and peered around for a front view crying WHOOPS! IT'S A GIRL! Last year these fantastic scare crows began to disappear. Their departure was hastened by a dull novel written about them by their creator. Since then Artist Arno has kept his satire closer to reality...
...Scare able for to steer...