Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helen Hayes, back to the stage from suffering in cinemas like Farewell to Arms, White Sister, gives to Mary little but these same brave, little girl accents. When she is on the stage in the last scene with Helen Menken, scrawny and harsh-voiced as Elizabeth, she is just a Hollywood actress. Philip Merivale has the height, the nose and the leanness for Bothwell, the only true man in Scotland, plays his part with praiseworthy capability...
...Brave, my dear editor, for having shown the underlying current of your policy to aid and abet the movement to overthrow our blessed institutions, yes, to undermine the very roots of our government...
Many objections arise to this view; certainly it is not so intelligent or so human as the communist solution. But it represents what must happen under capitalism. It has happened in every other industrial field, in this land of the free and home of the brave, and agriculture has been the last stronghold against it simply through the multiplicity of its owners and their vast political importance. Mr. Roosevelt, whose whole program is an infelicitous falling between the stools of Marx and Mill, has already had occasion to discover that the capitalists will not brook serious interference in the other...
...whole process has about it an air of unconscious irony, faintly reminiscent of the educational methods pictured in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." For it is not hard to guess what type of picture the teachers will choose for their tender-minded young charges: it is almost certain to be "educational" and "uplifting," and its capacity to amuse is likely to run in indirect ratio to its capacity for moral elevation. The students will go to the selected shows because they are forced to, and they will take part in the classroom discussions as perfunctorily as they swallow...
...Administration looks ahead to the meeting of Congress next January, realizing that the opening of the grousing season cannot be long delayed. Already keen ears in Washington detect the cocking of shotguns all over the country, a sound unpleasing to the natives. Henry Ford has rallied about him a brave band of those who, for various reasons fear the implications of enforced codes. The farm bloc, temporarily placated by the burnt offering of a devaluated dollar, can be expected to provide a great deal of clamor and possibly some force if the latest monetary scheme does not raise its commodity...