Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pioneers of America (Communist organization), they frolic at the game of "Strikers and Scabs" in the Victory Playground. This gentle pastime requires baseball bats, assorted clubs, rocks, tin cans, etc. The Strikers, with a tough 13-year-old in the role of "Hero" Albert Weisbord exhorting them to be brave, meet the Scabs or Cossacks (representing the police) in realistic Armageddon. The Strikers are always supposed to win. The children dearly love violence. Said a boy of ten years: "I nearly got arrested twice. Gee, I gave the Cossacks a lot of trouble. I wish they would arrest...
...heart deep in Sahara sands in a picture obviously and not expertly echoing his famed success in The Sheik. He plays a young desert gentleman enamored of a dancing girl traveling with a cut-throat band. He is attacked, imprisoned, released, chased, and close-uped. The girl turns out brave and pure. There is the usual sand storm. It is a terrible picture, concentrating on a handsome actor of some ability. It will be atrociously popular...
...everyone knows, Shakespeare's dramas, Henry IV and Henry V, trace the development of "Prince Hal," from the days when he consorted with wild tavern rakes until he ascended the throne as Henry V, spurned Falstaff, became renowned as a monarch sagacious and brave...
...Author of this brave work is a handsome, grizzled relation of Architect Christopher Wren (1632-1723), now not far from 60, who has occupied his lively mind with fiction-writing since terminating a most gallant career in his motherland's military and the French Foreign Legion. He has never visited the U. S., but will soon, ostensibly to sample the California climate but also to see with his own eyes large masses of the people whose literary a.nd cinematic blood-thirst has caused his last two books to sell into the hundreds of thousands. Big-game hunter, explorer, golfer...
...State Department in Washington. The Department had instructed Ambassador Herrick, friend of the French, to intercede with Premier Briand. The Premier had negotiated with War Minister Painlevé. The Minister had telegraphed to Damascus. Iron must give a little under pressure. Of course M. Doty had on occasion been brave, had received the Croix de Guerre. So, although he had sacrificed his citizenship and the U. S. Government had no recourse against any decision it might render, and though the law of the Legion is unremitting, the courts martial considered it advisable to sentence defiant Deserter Doty to but eight...