Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again." But Engineer Rukeyser bluntly concludes that to force a people like the Russians into Industrialization such methods are necessary, adds that for a Russian to be arrested by the Gay-pay-oo does not mean either death or molestation in most cases, always means a heart-straining scare...
After the heavy barrage laid down by The Decline of the West, Philosopher Spengler, cannonader of despair, now uses a single big gun to finish off what scattered hopes remain. His Big Bertha may scare swivel-chair warriors at H. Q., but it goes way over the heads of the boys doing the fighting up in front...
...when his hunger and thirst after righteousness begin to include a craving for Prostitute Teresa Burke, he hates himself so much that he decides to murder her. To lend the act godly significance, he pretends to himself that by making an example of Teresa he will scare the rest of Dublin out of their dearest deadly...
Shanghai was to Tokyo last week only another Tientsin, on a much grander and more glorious scale (see p. 21). Japan has many objectives, but a very big one is to scare the biggest Chinese city, Shanghai, into dropping the boycott of Japanese goods now general throughout China, and into buying Japanese goods. The big businessmen of Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe were under the strange but powerful impression last week that by employing Might in its crudest form the Japanese Empire can sell to China. After all, what was "The Opium War?" Chinese say it was a successful exhibition...
...even the night wind that moans about the aging author "imprisoned . . . in a small black and silver room between a typewriter and an unabridged dictionary" can scare him over to Aesred, the goddess of conformity. Still, "this pseudolyric nonsense . . . has become not quite the sort of nonsense to be regarded seriously by a responsible householder who lives in a common-sense world." Aging, Responsible-Householder Cabell finds that he must, though he cannot, put his shining people out of mind...