Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detroit suffered a thoroughgoing scare, for closely associated with Helen Abney for three nights were 100 other young & lithe girls who taxi-danced for a living and a thousand men who danced with them. Few of the dancers dared feel safe against smallpox contagion. When schoolchildren, some had evaded the usually compulsory vaccination against this comparatively rare disease.* Practically none of the others knew that vaccination may provide protection for only five years. By means of newspapers and radio Detroit's Health Commissioner Henry F. Vaughan last week explained all this to Detroit's citizens and plenty...
...horse of another color. The President is right that tension in the world is high and that we must "think of our national security." But those arguments are losing their force through much repetition. They are always heard whenever armament increase is wanted; they are as inevitable as scare heads on the country's yellow journals. The fact is that we are already spending a billion dollars-a record peace-time high-on armament. Furious rearming on the part of Germany, Japan, and Italy has only begun to threaten our supremacy, and bears no threat whatever to our "national security...
...charming enough to carry him off. Aubrey Mather is equally flawless as the corpulent colleague of the hero, who irritates and is irritated by his fellow pedagogue in numerous amiable ways. Phoebe Foster is quite satisfactory as the quietly domineering aunt, relieved of her nieces in time to scare the leading housemaster with the threat of marrying him, and marrying the other one instead. You won't laugh at this play so much as you'll smile in silent enjoyment, and you'll come out gratefully relaxed...
...with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor neighbor boy named Rene, Mother Slogum decided to teach both children a lesson, sent her brutal brother and two sons out to give Rene "a good scare." But even Mother Slogum was frightened when she heard they had castrated...
...very glad to see your pictorial paragraph, titled "God Control." Quite a few of my friends at Harvard have spoken very favorably about this article ... I certainly hope you will scare up some further pictures and give us more about the whole business...