Word: bravo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fool but a practical soldier of for tune, Col. Grove had had machine guns mounted on the Palace roof and had mobilized the carabineers. They faced the soldiers. General Moreno left to brave Col. Bravo the work of telling Col. Grove, "You must surrender by 11:30 p. m. or we bombard the Palace...
...Grove and 500 Communist demonstrators on whom they pounced in the streets of Santiago. But what about the Air Force? When a bomb ing plane bore down on the Presidential Palace, General Moreno and his officers looked anxious. Suddenly the plane zoomed in salute. "Hurrah!" exulted brave Col. Bravo. "Take your partners ? the dance begins...
...extraordinarily delicate and restrained piece of acting. So convincing was her drinking of a detested pitcher of porter, so stirring her defense of a browbeaten sister, so moving her portrayal of an invalid who passionately wished but mortally feared to be a wife, that first night spectators yelled "Bravo!" as the final curtain fell.* The supporting cast is capable: Jo Mielziner has mounted the piece as picturesquely as a John Leech drawing. A small Cocker spaniel as Flush behaves admirably...
Banker Dreyfus not only collected the works of great artists, he tried whenever possible to have those works the portraits of great Renaissance characters. There is Philip the Handsome of Spain; Princess Beatrice of Aragon; the Princess Medea, daughter of that great swashbuckler and Bergamese Bravo, Bartolommeo Colleoni; Giovanni Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna, and the dashing Guiliano dei Medici, murdered in church by the Pazzi...