Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lampoon comes out serene amidst alarms with a Vanity Fair number. Only by scattered references and the use of military terms in some of the passages which the reviewer is afraid to quote, do the punsters remind us of the military situation. It is just as well that, in these hideous times, we should be given something to take our minds off our studies. In fact, like the publication which it seeks to satirize, the present number of the Lampoon is calculated to take your mind off of anything. This is easy because it first convinces you that you have...
...will head the bottom of the list. The reasons for a lack of good substitute material in the minor sports are many. One is that men fear the handicap of inexperience. A man who has never tried any sport will go bravely out for football. Yet he will be afraid of fencing because, through his own ignorance, it seems an impossible art to attain...
Could co-education go farther than that? President, Mason was afraid that it might. He has therefore issued an order officially "canning" the aforesaid Cupid Person, and warning all interested parties that "spooning, queening, fussing, lallygagging, soft-soaping and mashing" will no longer be tolerated. --Boston Perald
...Bostonians are going to like "Bunker Bean," and eight telephone girls in back of me last night did not like it, I am afraid that the Athens of the North has forfeited her ancient right to the name of the city of discrimination. FREDERICK KEMP...
...seriousness, during the Titanic inquiry, asked such questions as "Did the boat go down by front or the bow?" and "Why didn't the passengers go into the water-tight bulkheads to keep from drowning?" for the continuance of our naval policy, which Mr. Whittlesey is afraid to leave to the party that put into law the naval bill--and to Boise Penrose and Joseph Fordney of "special interest" fame for the "fair and honest" tariff. And as to foreign affairs, they will be in control of such men as James Mann and Henry A. Cooper, of Wisconsin, both...