Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge police force is to be submitted to such nervous strains as this, it is certainly time that something is done about the effect of criminal motion pictures on juveniles. If the screen influences little Cambridge schoolgirls to threaten the city's nicest policeman, it might cause impressionable little boys to set up a Cambridge underworld and "burn down" traffic officers in Harvard Square right before Harvard undergraduates...
...Oklahoma City, revealed that Governor Johnston had consulted him frequently during the impeachment proceedings. Astrophysical phenomena can cause no end of things "from short skirts to foaming-at-the-mouth legislatures," said Mr. Lewis. Perhaps he was thinking of two Oklahoma legislators who paused in debate, last fortnight, to threaten each other with paper cutters...
...Manhattan for ten years. The nucleus of his troupe went to Chicago, developed into the Chicago Civic Opera of today, an organization devoted to Italian and French opera. The Metropolitan, unmolested, has stayed Italian and German. The paths of the two never cross. No new group has risen to threaten them. Wagner, thus, in the U. S. has stayed the prerogative of the Metropolitan. It has been given as the management believes the public wants it-cut and trimmed to make a comfortable afternoon or evening. But many an operagoer has been dissatisfied with the cuts and the production...
...nice long table, with mother at one end and father at the other, is just right for a family of nations. Mother can wheedle, if little Miss Venezuela won't behave about her oil. Father can cough or threaten, if Master Bolivia kicks under the table again at Master Paraguay. Fortunately for the peace of the Americas, just such a family table stands perpetually in the white marble Pan-American Building, at Washington; and there, last week, mother and father dished up a piping dinner for all 20 republics. Of course the "family party" was really the Pan-American Conference...
Every "reorganization" intelligent was M.P. knew that "merger" or this a move to threaten British motor makers; but simply an attempt by Mr. Ford to enhance the appeal of his "Made in England" motor cars by admitting insular Britons to a share in Ford profits. None the less petulant M.P.'s raised a rumpus...