Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finished with examinations; and, yet, a little sad to quit my studies with my tutor, and to feel I must soon leave these pleasant bowers where I have learned many sweet philosophies. But it being such a fair day, I no more of these thoughts; so, in brave new flannels, all a bubble, to the office where I have not been in a long time. There I did see many new faces and one young one did ask what might my business be. Also I see my desk is gone, and my name among those past. Alas, dear Vagabond, even...
...profession of the law drove him against his inclinations into public life, had the same background, the same attitude as Washington, but a "far wider" range of intellectual and esthetic interests. A fine figure of a man (his sandy hair was six feet two inches from the ground) and brave, but no soldier, he served the Revolution in Congress and as Governor of Virginia. When Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and out of their struggles to control Father Washington's ear arose the biparty system. Author Adams admits that...
...Croix de Feu under the leadership of handsome but ineffective Colonel Frangois Casimir de la Rocque. Colonel de la Rocque has neither the plan nor the push to make a real dictator. Neither perhaps has André Tardieu. but he at least is a politician shrewd enough, if not brave enough, to know what to do with the Croix de Feu. if he ever gets his hands on it. A more hard-headed explanation: André Tardieu could not be elected...
Since the Townsend Plan burgeoned some 18 months ago, editors, columnists, economists and a few brave politicians have devoted thousands upon thousands of words to denouncing it, ridiculing it, exposing its fallacies. Except to advertise it, all this has had no effect whatever on the Plan. Terrifying to Congressmen, the ranks of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. have swelled & swelled as oldsters from coast to coast planked down their 10?-per-month dues in the happy faith that they would soon be getting back $200 per month from the Government. Last week the Townsend legion fell victim to the disaster...
There were brave men in Germany last week who risked their lives for an ideal. The shrewdest brains of the Nazi secret police were trying to find out who they were. Meanwhile in the midst of the greatest exhibition of organized mob hysteria Germany has ever seen, small slips of paper, some printed, some mimeographed, some typed, continued to be circulated surreptitiously from hand to hand. All had the same theme: "Comrades, write NO on your ballots! Every vote of NO is a vote against war, against misery, against famine, concentration camps and murders...