Word: braved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monro became president of the new daily, called the Journal, which included on its masthead such present greats in the editorial world as E. J. Kahn '37 of the New Yorker and Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr. '34 managing editor of Life. Despite a brave start, the paper was forced out of business after a few weeks by debts and the difficulties of competition with an established monopoly...
Winston Churchill and 140 other advocates of European unity last week gathered in Brussels for the first International Council of the European Movement (an outgrowth of the Congress of Europe last year at The Hague). Brave and lofty words were spoken at Brussels, some of them in Mr. Churchill's makeshift French, but the gap between this private crusade and government action remained as wide as ever...
...trouble was, as the judge later said of Lieut. Commander Thomas Graeme Ridgeway, that "he might be brave in the face of the enemy, but he was not a hero when it came to facing a woman...
Paramount President Barney Balaban put on a brave front. Said he: "The consent judgment . . . opens the way to one of the most constructive moves in the history of the corporation." But the constructive move broke up one of the biggest and most profitable U.S. movie companies at a time when the outlook for all moviemakers was none too good. On the other hand, moviegoers would benefit. "Clearances," which now prevent small theaters from showing pictures too soon after their first run, are banned. In many small towns this would give a wider selection of pictures. Among the separation terms...
...realistic pictures of Red politicians and soldiers in action-that Soviet bigwigs think uplifting. Some critics, it seemed, had dared to see a little merit in paintings done outside the Russian sphere, which "serve the selfish interests of the bourgeoisie, catering to their decadent and perverted tastes." And a brave or venturesome man named Byeskin had even found fault with a picture by one Yar-Kravchenko entitled Gorky Reads to Comrades Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov His Story, "Girl and Death", which subsequently won a Stalin Prize...