Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wood. In Washington, brave little Tenino's celebrated wooden money experiment (TIME, March 14) came to a glorious close, thanks to the nation's numismatists. When Tenino's one & only bank failed last year, Publisher Donald M. Major and a group of public-spirited men thought up a plan to keep some kind of currency circulating in the town. They issued to each depositor plywood certificates valued at 75% of his bank deposit. Gradually the bank's affairs were settled. Last week Tenino bought in its wooden money with U. S. money, found that...
...this they decide to auction off their daughters for $25,000 each. Three of the daughters meet with mysterious misfortunes. The fourth and most beautiful, Lien Wha, persuades a rich Chinese gambler that she is worth the whole $100,000. This is most sad for brave Lien Wha; she is in love with a handsome young Chinese named Tom Lee. It is giving away no secret to explain that Tommy Lee turns out to be a Chinese prince; and that the gambler is a criminal called The Sea Crab who, also concerned with patriotic problems, hopes to prevent...
...predicament more lifelike, makes his final decision less plausible, is the deletion of many funny lines which Author Barry wrote for the mistress. Ann Harding is left with the bare essentials of a role which requires her to walk up & down her studio apartment being too arduously brave...
...Most of them sprinted for the safety of the cloakrooms. Others ducked under tables. A few sat petrified in their seats. One Representative who did not lose his head was Minnesota's "lame duck" Melvin Joseph Maas, an overseas aviator with the Marine Corps during the War. Stocky & brave, Representative Maas marched across the floor to a spot directly under the armed intruder and called up: "All right, son, you can have the floor and make your speech. But you can't do it with that gun in your hand. Come on, drop it down...
...storage room, freezes it in a block of ice. Then he hangs it on the wall or ceiling, classifies and labels it with the aid of pamphlets issued by Washington's University and State College. Mostly from the Middle West come some 30,000 visitors a year to brave a temperature of 10° above zero, stare at the fish. Retaining live form and color in their ice blocks, the fish stare back with more than living fishiness. Seattle pays almost nothing to maintain the exhibit, charges no admission. The collection ranges from a shrimp...