Word: braving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Francisco Franco's elaborately touted final offensive against Catalonia, first threatened four weeks ago, again failed to materialize last week, was postponed from mañana (tomorrow) to mañana (tomorrow). What attacks there were on the Aragon front were all on the Leftist side. A brave but foolhardy attack by Catalan militiamen against a Rightist stronghold known as Hill, 1100 was beaten back after a loss of some 400 men caught in a blast of machine-gun fire on the barbed wire. Not even one Spanish square mile changed hands last week...
...Yale Glee Club, 1937) Orpheus With His Lute Parker Bailey (poem by William Shakespeare) Hopei Schupei Czechish Folk Song The Testament Heinrich Marschner (student song of Heidelberg) Yale INTERMISSION Liebeslieder Brahms Choruses from The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester '38 Football Songs Harvard Brave Mother Yale Thomas G. Shepard Shall I, Wasting in Despair? Old English Air (Words by G. Wither, 1588-1667) Where the Elm Tree Grows Yale Song Book Football Medley Arr. by Arthur Hall Yale Bright College Years Fair Harvard Yale and Harvard
...hatred and misunderstanding, but actively to promote international friendship, the U. S. Government went on the air to sing not its own praises but those of its neighbors. Over 65 Columbia Broadcasting System stations, the most elaborate educational radio program ever attempted by the Government began ''Brave new world! The story of Latin America. . . . Twenty nations with a history and culture to be admired and a democratic ideal we share...
...hitting prose of the century, he has used his skill and power to smash rose-colored spectacles right & left, to knock many a genteel pretence into a sprawling grotesque. Detractors have called him a bullying bravo, have pointed out that smashing spectacles and pushing over a pushover are not brave things to do. As the "lost generation" he named* have grown greyer and more garrulous, so his own invariably disillusioned but Spartan books have begun to seem a little dated; until it began to be bruited that Hemingway was just another case of veteran with arrested development and total recall...
...same picturesque level as the subjects of his antic literary works (Shoe the Wild Mare, The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line). In Salute to Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema producers were reported in friendly negotiations with Author Fowler, who is holding...