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...British seemed not so much offended as amused. Said the London Observer: ". . . the Colonel's brave new thought is far from original. In his play The Apple Cart, produced nearly 14 years ago, Bernard Shaw made exactly this suggestion. The Apple Cart was voted quite good comedy...
...equipment weigh nearly twice as much. But, hoisting his wounded friend onto his back, he jumped. The chute snapped open, held-but Smith lost his grip on his friend, saw him plummet to his death. When Smith floated down to earth, he was taken prisoner. Last week, for a brave try that went wrong, the Air Ministry awarded him the Distinguished Flying Medal...
Cold production figures were there to prove it. Ford executives, who in the months of dead hopes had quietly borne their lumps from the Army, the old-line aviation companies and the public, were bursting to make their brave new figures public. They thought the figures might give the U.S. a lift and the Axis a good scare. The Army said no, flatly; but U.S. citizens could take heart anyway. The news from Willow Run is good...
Elisabet was a grandniece of that intrepid Marshal of Napoleon who led a premature charge at Waterloo and who was known as the Bravest of the Brave. Elisabet herself never did anything but charge, always prematurely. If she was not brave it is because that virtue cannot be ascribed to anyone who has never suspected the existence of fear. She was tall, milk-fleshed, redhaired, chokingly beautiful. She was-she thought-an intense idealist...
...failed to show up at his first big meet. Said the boy: "I couldn't bear to appear half naked in front of all those people!'' Von Elling started him jumping before spectators in street clothes, stripped him by easy stages, finally persuaded his prodigy to brave an audience in shorts: whereupon he set a world's record in the standing high jump...