Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to Haiti for a year to find out about voodoo. He has also visited whirling dervishes at their monastery in Tripoli, Yezidi devil-worshipers in Kurdistan. Tall, heavy of build and face, with near Hitlerian mustache, Traveler Seabrook looks hopelessly lethargic, is not. He says: "I am not brave. Only full of curiosity." Other books: Adventures in Arabia, The Magic Island...
...must Fight" is a strange picture to come from Hollywood, where serious ideas are considered undeserving of screenland publicity. Such rare items as the evangelism of Cecil DeMille do not attempt to present conflicts of principle, and it is a new and brave thing to show the movie-going world the essential differences between pacifism and militarism...
...Independents were a brave cause in 1916 when able young Artists Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows. Samuel Halpert, Walter Pach and A. S. Bay-linson founded it. Then the National Academy of Design's snobbism smothered unorthodox U. S. art. Now Henri, Halpert and Bellows are dead, and the discovery of new U. S. art has become a highly organized business. Except for pictures by Founders Sloan, Pach, Baylinson and a few others, only "undiscovered" art hung last week on the walls of a long room like a warehouse. The Independents have no judges, no jury, no awards...
...would be very dull to insist on further proof of the patent greatness of Bernard Shaw. Almost alone of our contemporaries, he has had a divine consistency. One may, like Mr. Chesterton, disapprove of his principles, but he cannot trap Mr. Shaw into applying those principles falsely. A brave regularity in an unpopular position is always an admirable thing, but Mr. Shaw has made it inspiring and pleasant also. He may be, as Lenin said "a good man fallen among Fabians," but he is certainly not as Mr. McCabe once charged so ineptly "quite as entertainer." For to entertain merely...
...game. Sniffing that old devil communism, the vigilants empowered their speaker to appoint the time honored investigating committee. With the old Brown facility for going one better, a grieved alumnus beseeched the Federal District Attorney to do his bit as Torquemada also. But the Herald, nothing daunted, rejoined in brave tones that theirs was "the higher patriotism...