Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide lotteries. This year U. S. newssheets were warned by the postal authorities that they would be prosecuted for advertising lotteries if they published the names of lottery winners in mail editions. Many a paper published the names of winners last week in their city editions but did not brave...
...Round-Up, "Hoover'll never serve another term," snarls the villain of this piece, referring not to the 31st President of the U. S. but to one "Slim" Hoover, the brave Arizona sheriff of a Wild Western melodrama, vintage 1907. Revived last week, The Round-Up could at least be sure that it was the noisiest play on Broadway. Its cast includes seven broncos. A rescue party of U. S. soldiers finally join in a pitched gun-battle between poisonous redskins and a pair of frontiersmen. At the conclusion of this affray, one soldier may be seen waving...
Marlene, exquisitely sensuous in her black-plumed sophistication, plays Shanghai Lily to the distraction of every male. Particularly furious is the storm roused in the brave English breast of her old love, Captain Harvey, played by Clive Brook, surgeon in the service of Her Majesty. The action revolves around this pair, together with the machinations of the somewhat too facile and too evil Mr. Chang, who is none other than the inevitable Warner Oland, again gone Oriental. Shanghai Lily demands the faith of Harvey and the picture ends as she is getting it in such a fashion as to leave...
When he arrived at St. Peter's he spoke brave Latin. "Omne trinum est perfectum!" II Duce, meaning "Everycombination of three is perfect." It was his third visit to St. Peter's.* First was directly after the wedding of Daughter Edda. Second was for the wedding of Edda's sister-in-law, daughter of Count Costanzo Ciano...
...Upheaval" the memoirs of Meadame Olga Woronoff, nee Countess Kleiumichel, and Maid of Honor to the late Empress Alexandra. Booth Tarkingten says: "No writer upon the Russian engulfment has printed a more living account of human beings who lived and perished, were heroic and gay, weak, bewildered and absurdly brave during the months of a Terroy--Madame Woronoff is distinguished for her gift of expressiveness--and her narrative seems to me to be so revealing and so alive and so eminently readable that I could not. If would, refrain from saying that it should be read' by everyone interested...