Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldier hats, the sailoy suits of childhood are laid away, but Harvard's happy children may yet look brave in braid...
...only fair to admit that "Everybody's Welcome" is no more conventional than the run of musical comedies. The Playgoer is railing rather at the whole species. He thinks back to the brave days of Gilbert and Sullivan, of "Patience" and of "Pinafore." When the curtain rises on a new show, he recalls Sullivan's baton at the Savoy, and nostalgia overcomes him. He blows the froth off the new theatrical brew, looks within the stein, and finds it empty. Disappointment has made him crusty, and of the modern shows he applauds only "Of Thee I Sing," the one perfect...
...after years a Temple was erected from the proceeds of the confiscated Gracchan property called the Temple of Concord. On one dark night a man stole in and etched the brother's common epitaph for all the world-"Out of discord comes Concord." They were honest and brave men who died for the principles they so staunchly supported. But they did not die in vain for they sowed the seeds of democracy which was eventually to bring down the foundations of the republic amid the far off thunder of the Triumvirate. Today at 9 in Sever 18 Mr. Hammond will...
...BRAVE NEW WORLD-Aldous Huxley-Doubleday, Doran...
...page from Swift, a page from Samuel Butler, a page or two from Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells and Anatole France: put them all together and they spell HUXLEY. Author Huxley points out that his brave new world is strikingly similar to a world simultaneously envisioned by a slightly soberer scientist, Bertrand Russell. Delighted when critics discovered that he was a Thinker, he is still unwilling to give up tomfoolery. In Brave New World he mixes it so well with sober, cynical conclusions that it is hard to tell where one stops and the other begins...