Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the Treasurer's Statement we learn . . ." read the first words to emerge from The Magenta under that bravest of all battle flags, the one that reads Vol. 1. Issue 1. Early readers who had just descended from their mustache cups to their poached eggs that January morning in '73 learned in the next eleven lines of clipped prose that the Kirkland Fellowship fund had reached the level...
Though enough brutality is shown on both sides, war appears as a zestful game, in which the bravest gets the girl as well as all other earthly honors. But fortunately, there is no attempt at sophistication, and if one allows for the propaganda and the insensivity, the film may come as a breath of fresh air after the emptiness (and often equally insidious propaganda) of Hollywood. The strange and fearsome animal heraldry of the Germans produces something quite different from another patriotic, medieval picture, "Henry V." "Nevsky" never achieves the effect of magnificence of the English movie, and its battle...
General Cooke, a hardened soldier himself, started with much the same idea ("I didn't know enough about psychoneurosis to find the word in a dictionary"). But his assignment from General Marshall was to "seek the neurosis in its lair"-and he found it among some of the bravest troops. In an eminently readable book (All But Me and Thee; Infantry Journal Press; $2.75), he now tells what he reported to General Marshall...
...glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...
Millionaire "Socialist." Altgeld's bravest, best-known act as governor of Illinois was his pardon, in 1893, of three labor leaders jailed for complicity in Chicago's Haymarket bombing seven years earlier.* For this he was damned far & wide as a "Socialist," a "wild-haired demagogue." Robert Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln's only surviving son, rose at a Harvard alumni banquet to beg all good Harvard men to "stand firm in the midst of such dangers in the republic." The press screamed that the Governor was encouraging "anarchy, rapine and the overthrow of civilization...