Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Recommended to potential Spankers are these precepts: Don't scold or pray over the child, or nag with small, ineffectual, repeated chastisements. Don't ridicule, frighten, punish after school years; never in the presence of others after the age of three. Punish immediately and impressively after an offense...
Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago thrust his heavy hands last week into the tomb of the late Senator Joseph Medill McCormick of Illinois in search of old political bones with which to frighten the city's 75,000 Negro voters out of their Republican wits. What he ghoulishly drew forth was the wraith of Chicago's great race riot of July 27-Aug. 2, 1919. This he hurled anonymously at the Senator's widow, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, now the Republican nominee for the Senate against Democrat James Hamilton Lewis...
...burst," he said in part, "no frog ever has been in such grave physical danger as Sir George Younger." Of the Bonar Law Cabinet in 1923 Lord Birkenhead said: "They remind me of the Duke of Wellington's observation upon his generals: 'I don't know whether they will frighten the enemy, but, by God, they frighten...
...could chill the blood of Budapest's bourgeoisie as quickly. Eleven years have passed since the pale violet-scented clerk Albert Cohen, Bela Kun in Hungarian, ruled Budapest for 133 bloody days, but nursemaids still frighten children with lurid tales of gutters red with blood, nuns and countesses falling before his firing squads, rich landowners tortured to death. Since his downfall in 1919 Bela Kun has held a minor office in Moscow's Foreign Propaganda bureau. He has appeared, plump, ugly flashily dressed, smelling of wood violet, in Portugal and Vienna only to be hustled...
...enough not to frighten seriously stand-pat-Laborite free traders, an 8% levy might serve to hold the votes of other Laborites now tempted to bolt into the Rothermere or Beaverbrook tariff camps. The 8% scheme, it was revealed last week, has been worked out for Scot MacDonald -no great economist-by the Special Commission he appointed last spring to report on tariffs as an antidote to unemployment (TIME, March...