Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea that he is a newspaper broker. "It is a good business," he says, "but it is not my business." He sold the Mail, he explains, because neither he nor his partner, Henry L. Stoddard, had the money to carry on. The Journal was a sacrifice to a Hearst scare in Detroit. Neither the News-Scimitar nor the Lancaster paper interested him. The one he bought to settle a debt; the other to give a friend...
...Michigan's comfortable Couzens, in either of whom a case of mumps would wreak a startling transformation. Senator Taylor Robinson is the Democratic leader and he might have transmitted mumps to any or all of his nonimmune colleagues in the course of his whispered conferences. A great mump scare, perhaps a mump epidemic, seemed imminent...
...Scare" was set palpitating in the Commons by Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, pious and reactionary Home Secretary...
When the House received this revelation with equanimity, Sir William nursed his suckling Scare and took it before a Conservative rally at Leamington, where he cried: "We are asked to put up with the subsidizing of crime by a Russian bank in this country. . . . There is a direct chain from the Russian bank to Communist agitators in all the great cities of this land. ... I have the most complete evidence...
...Arabic press, frenzied by the incident, indulged in a Christian-scare, declaring that the Sudan is now a hotbed of Christian proselytizing, and that if the process continues it will dangerously further the seizure of this territory by Great Britain...