Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BEFORE THE BRAVE-Kenneth Patchen -Random House ($2). SWEAR BY THE NIGHT-Nathalia Crane -Random House ($1.50). Mere mention of poetry makes most men itch. Not until poetry the thing has been sent again & again to the critical laundry would most self-respecting readers wear it next to their skins. Modern poets have always raised a storm of apprehensive, defensive abuse. Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity. But readers of 1936 think they have a better case against their poets than more ancient moderns did against theirs. Nervous readers, cornered...
Republican Senator Vandenberg: The brave words of an honest...
Ceiling Zero (Warner), a crisp adaptation of last year's successful stage play, is not apt to whet the average citizen's appetite for flying, despite the moral that pilots are brave men willing to die for Science...
...unusual position by keeping up a personal Guard sworn to preserve, protect and defend Nicholas Horthy. From Budapest last week there arrived in the U. S. a significant picture (see cut) of the extremely practical Regent further entrenching himself in the devotion of his Guard by handing to the brave fellows on Christmas soap, bologna sausage, crockery, pots, pans and such especially prized gifts as an alarm clock and a meat grinder...
...beginning of a new era. . . . This world in its crisis called for volunteers, for men of faith in life, of patience in service, of charity and of insight. I responded to the call however I could. I volunteered to give myself to my Master-the cause of humane and brave living. I studied. I loved. I labored, unsparingly and hopefully, to be worthy of my generation...