Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average child wants to be brave, and given a fair opportunity he will be. But he bitterly resents being lied...
...Brave, gay, wreaths are in the windows. Trailing ropes of greenery hang in department stores. Thin and bandy-legged men stand on street corners in red suits ringing cow bells. On envelopes are little green stamps emblazoned with the cross of the crusades. An old woman in the South End stares out a dirty window into a dirty street at a delivery truck painted red and green. Young girls in Beacon Hill loop up to a candle smiling winsomely through lace curtains. Mail men stoop beneath vast leather bags full of hopeful verse in bad metre and worn out welcomes...
Recently the A. J. Y. W. A. decided that new and appropriate good deeds would be "comforting our brave soldiers in Manchuria." Seven socialite maidens were picked out of the 2,000,000 and solemnly blessed by a Shinto priest (see cut). Last week, the socialite Misses Tsuneyo Ishii, Fumiko Yamaguchi, Sakiko Yendo, Toshiko Odai. Masako Aoyagi and Chisato and Kijo Chiba were busy in Manchuria, comforting...
...case is repulsive to Japanese. Carrying little bags they pattered among the troops, chaperoned by Mrs. Fusako Yamawaki and Director Matsuhei Noda of the A. J. Y. W. A. (left and right centre in cut). Out of the little bags they took and presented to Japan's brave soldiers large tubes of tooth paste, larger tubes of shaving cream...
Notwithstanding Northampton's brave rhetoric, Harvard and Radcliffe are as close now as two such constellations can well be without perturbation of the planets under the Zodiacal high-sign of Virgo. Such a nicety of balance exists that, though celestial bodies remain undisturbed in their several classrooms, yet an isolated meteorite may drop into Dunster House of a Sunday afternoon, and now and then a Radcliffe shooting star leaves its trail in the night...