Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a jury in Old Bailey Court found brave Captain Miles guilty of "corruption and conspiring to pervert the administration of justice." Grimly the judge sentenced him to four years in jail...
...They were so brave that they deserve to be shot rather than hung. But of course a few hangings are unavoidable...
...bedroom diplomatics with firing-squad angelics. Madeleine Carroll shows that a Flemish variety of Mata Hari can play around with secret codes, drink-befuddled German officers, and counter-spies without help of a Circle-like reputation, and without confusing the issues by failing in love with a young brave of the enemy...
...startled last night about 9 o'clock when a burning sofa hurtled from a fourth floor window in F entry onto the pavement beneath. For fifteen minutes its flames flared up from the court casting an unholy glare over the usually tranquil House and illuminating the efforts of the brave Cambridge fire ladies in their struggle against the fiercest of the elements...
...doubt. But how this is to be done without virtually taking away the political independence of Austria and making her a mere ward of the League presents an unusually thorny problem. Everything is on the side of the Nazis; it will not be surprising if they are able to brave all the rest of Europe, and set up a Fascist government in Vienna which in everything but name will be merely a sub-station of the main Brown House in Berlin. NEMO...