Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With these brave words, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in January 1937 launched what looked at the time to be the most far-reaching project of his Administration to date: a gigantic plan to reorganize the entire executive branch of the Federal Government, intended among other things to kill the U. S. spoils system...
...secondary factor of the Chinese resistance has been the weather. Heavy snowfalls, then freezing weather, mucked down Japanese tanks, motor transports in the loose soil of Shansi Province. Last week the Japanese were still sending brave bands across the river in rubber pontoon boats, frail craft menaced by floating chunks of ice,Chinese sniper bullets, whirling, angry waters...
Christopher Wood belonged to a period in the arts which has been thoroughly berated for its frivolity but for which many an artist nevertheless feels a nostalgic respect. In the U. S. it was characterized by the brave inebrieties of Greenwich Village; in England by the no-less-eccentric brilliance of writers like Ronald Firbank, who always carried a few lumps of coal in his suitcase to remind him where his family got its money. Like Firbank, "Kit" Wood was a well-to-do, social young man who became a legend, but the legend is of a singularly pure artist...
...shock, the terrific impact of this realization upon mystic, intuitive Dictator Hitler produced one of those instantaneous and, as Nazis say, "inspired" decisions which the Führer now & then makes: MOBILIZATION! Once aroused, potent Herr Hitler, with Teutonic ruthlessness, simply smashed brave, resourceful but basically impotent Dr. Schuschnigg. Crunch!-the heavy-handed German Chancellor dispatched from Berlin Schuschnigg's Minister Without Portfolio Edmund Glaise-Horstenau to demand within five hours a decree by the Austrian Government "indefinitely postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining...
Accepting nothing but the title of Kate Douglas Wiggin's pig-tailed story, "Rebecca" makes a brave effort to amuse. Surrounded by pleasant people (Gloria Stuart, Randolph Scott, Bill Robinson, Slim Summerville), Miss Temple gives a mature and finished performance within a plot that seems somewhat septuagenarian. It is about Little Miss America, her starched Aunt Miranda, and a vigorous radio executive, and it ends in music...