Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whitney Hall--Intercollegiate dance--9 to 2 o'clock. All the debutantes too wise or too foolish to brave the Copley-Plaza...
...much tripe" and "Very well in deed." In chapters on "The Sex Urge," "Frigidity and Incompatibility", and "Matrimony Wreckers'' there is much rehearsal of sex-psychology- prudish parents, prurient children; ignorant girls, boorish men - that will seem, in its sanity, almost old-fashioned to those who are brave enough to buy the book after they learn that the long, frank fourth chapter is on "Homosexuality." There is even the statement: "If man is polygamous, woman is polyandrous," with the usual demonstration that each is nothing of the kind. If that fails to reassure the timid, let them turn...
Sentimentality, and laziness are, in their own way, amusing. And after the quiet sibilations of supposed British accents the roars of the brave colonel are refreshing. Nor is Miss Landis unattractive. One could not mind having her about the house. The aged Jean Jacques was not such a fool, after all. And no one can dislike hearing a man go singing to his death when one is sure he will return. The colonel had to return, if only to wave his handkerchief. By the way, devotees of the Metropolitan should see the uniform on--was he a captain? That alone...
...With a brave splurging of whatever funds they control, an exceptionally bold and literate group of Manhattan pornographers is loosing hinds into the magazine world...
Died. General José Maria Orellana, President of Guatemala, 54, brave and completely successful revolutionary. Two months after his overthrow of the Herrera Administration (1922) he was elected to serve as President until...