Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather well, the stodginess of the reviewers in the earlier nineteenth century, the nearly complete lack of public taste, and the banality of stagecraft Despite its deft writing, it is a depressing little pamphlet, revealing more than one likes to see of the awful depths to which even the bravest and best of English dramaturges have sunk...
...forced down by lack of fuel, but Riviere (John Barrymore), the general manager of the air lines, who has to order Mme Fabian (Helen Hayes) to leave his office, rebuke his subordinate Robineau for being too familiar with pilots, send the European mail out into a storm, accuse his bravest pilot of cowardice to steel...
Once upon a time an ageing, king with a Satanic sneer and a great peruke lived in a Baroque palace. From this palace he made occasional raids, foraging among his neighbors for the means to gratify his Teutonic tastes. For these raids he gathered from Europe the bravest and strongest soldiers that money could buy, them he drilled and disciplined as soldiers had never been disciplined before. He won battles, and became the hero of his countrymen. But battles palled, he was not amused. So he built Sanssouci, which in its Baroque lushness reflected his Northern, Germanic, emotional temperament...
...that most German statesmen & politicians outside the Government's charmed circle were scared to death last week, would be understatement. Panic made cowards of the bravest of brave German Socialists and Communists. Even Catholics trembled-except Dr. Hans Luther. It was accurately said that in less than two weeks Chancellor Hitler has reduced his opponents to a lower level of groveling fear than did Premier Mussolini in the two years after the March on Rome...
...before the new Reichstag met-nearly all Communist Deputies and many Socialist Deputies were in jail. The Hitler Government announced that no Communist Deputies (even should they break jail) would be admitted to the Reichstag. Most Socialist Deputies were expected to stay away, lest they be harmed. The bravest Socialist (by reputation), Dr. Otto Braun, Premier of Prussia, once famed as "The Lion of Social Democracy," fled to Switzerland where he was still so terrified that he telegraphed to Berlin his resignation from the Prussian Diet and from the German Reichstag...