Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Reed was an amazing, a talented, and a brave man. He deserves the full and well-documented history that Granville Hicks has made of him both from a sociological and a personal standpoint. Things significant need not be things effective, or even things agreeable. The life of John Reed by Granville Hicks is a beautifully-written and extremely absorbing book...
...call of duty." Since under these conditions a Medal-of-Honor soldier generally has to act single-handed and without orders, the War Department makes a painstaking search of all available evidence before it picks its top-notch heroes. This process starts when a field officer first recommends a brave subordinate for a Medal of Honor. The case slowly passes up through the various Army divisions to the War Department's Decorations Board. From there the recommendation, if approved by the Secretary of War, goes to the President who presents the Medal in the name of Congress...
...Royal Family's ornate hotel suite, Haile Selassie showed reporters the raw burns on his hand: "I am ill," said he, "affected by noxious gas, but it is nothing. I am fortunate to escape with my life, whereas thousands of my brave people died." A Jewish barber came in and trimmed Haile Selassie's beard, now quite grey, before the little Emperor went to pray at the Ethiopian Church and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. "Have courage and hope," the Emperor told 200 weeping Coptic priests...
...FEATHER CLOAK MURDERS-Darwin and Hildegarde Teilhet-Crime Club ($2). Brave Baron von Kaz (The Ticking Terror Murders) reappears on U. S. territory to unscramble a murderous mess in the Hawaiian Islands. Out of the Baron's prowlings, tantrums, and passion for the beauteous Caryl, Authors Teilhet concoct a tale whose underpinnings are stouter than the average thriller...
...trumpetings have merely deafened the ears they assaulted, some of his more winning piccolo-and-bassoon effects have roused more laughter than thought. Since retiring from the editorship of the American Mercury, Mencken has brought out several treatises in soberer vein. His biggest opus, first published in the brave days of 1919, last week reappeared in a guise so transfigured that it was almost unrecognizable...