Word: bravo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Growltiger was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge...
...tall, thin, handsome Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Polish Army. Weighing 252 pounds and standing six feet four inches, General Sir Edmund has been nicknamed "Tiny" by his men. More aptly, the Poles called him the "Iron General" and greeted him with cries of "Bravo Iron...
...Bravo for TIME's impartial presentation of air travel sentiments. Fanny Ward [whose daughter, Lady Plunket, was killed in an airplane crash (TIME, April 4)] is entitled to all the world's sympathy . . . but she should not take it upon herself to prejudice an increasingly air-minded generation...
...Best actor: Spencer Tracy as the bravo fisherman, Manuel, in Captains Courageous...
...polite world, Ernest Hemingway has much to answer for. Armed with the hardest-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...