Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged that General José Belloni, head of the European purchasing board, had shared in at least $60,000 commissions paid his dentist-nephew. Alberto Jonchi, by Colt Co. Few doubted the nephew had been paid. Senator Bravo read letters to prove that the brave uncle had been paid...
...picket fence without damaging one's anatomy. In Italy, Germany, and Russia where one party has completely taken over the reins of government, freedom of thought has become a myth and an unpatriotic form of amusement. Even in this great land of the free and the brave to criticize the present administration is regarded as an act of tyranny and the interloper a tory. It is inevitable that where regimentation of economic and political activities occurs, there also must be found regimentation of thinking in all branches of human activity...
...produce anything new and refreshing in the line of musical films. This department cannot conceive of the possibility of combining more lavish expenditure of money, larger numbers of peroxide chorus girls singing mildly suggestive syncopated noises than the producers have done in the case of "Dames". Despite the brave efforts of Ruby Kneeland and Dick Powell the result is a dreadfully trite and boring picture which differs only from its predecessors in that it has the misfortune to be the most recent of a long line of such efforts. If we were not convinced of the vainness of so doing...
...Empire this was brave news, for Prince George, cheerful, popular and hand some, has all his life been rated physically below par. Organic indigestion drove him from the Royal Navy into the Foreign Office where he was made a third secretary. This proved too strenuous. Sympathetic Edward of Wales took him along on a tour of South America, did all the heavy speech-making himself. Prince George seemed to perk up and catch on. Senoritas praised his dancing, called him "more fascinating than the Prince of Wales." His digestion seemed to improve. He seemed to be able to drink...
...That pamphlet made our Vladimir," his admirers in Sarajevo solemnly declare. "It fired the heart of every brave man amongst us against the tyrant Franz Josef and his heir...