Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Liberal Star expressed "amazement at the orgy of violence which marked Chicago's municipal elections," and the blatant Daily Mail gave the impression that every Chicagoan who voted did so in imminent peril of being bombed. Even factual Times cried emotionally that "in Chicago every man's hand seems to be raised against his fellow and the preponderating mass of law-abiding citizens is almost powerless to check the orgy of violence...
...assaults of an unrestrained soldiery; and not only did it provide the only conceivable means by which the lives of this party were saved from the danger that immediately threatened them, but it also made possible the evacuation of the other Americans residing at Nanking, who were in actual peril of their lives...
After the "Ask Me Another" peril was finally filed safely away in the waste basket along with the Cross Word Puzzle books it was not evident from whence would come the heir apparent to the honored place on the library table, once held by the sterioptican and family album. The answer came partially with MARRIAGE MADE EASY by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins (The Century Co., New York, 1928, $1.25). When bridge and conversation fail it is one of those strange playthings which baffle the intelligence and flatter the vanity...
...Foreign invasion" seemed to him a timely topic in California and he pictured for an audience which had dreamed in childhood of the "Yellow Peril," the ease with which oceans can be crossed, coasts shelled, bombs dropped by little yellow men or big white men. He clarioned the need for a potent standing Army, a potent Navy. Then he tore into his surest spellbinder, G. O. P. iniquities. He called Secretary Mellon a blasphemer and Candidate Hoover a Britisher. Raising his hand with terrible deliberation, he intoned: "I charge President Coolidge with misfeasance in office. . . . He kept this arch criminal...
...established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term has become, by universal concurrence, a part of our republican system of government and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions...