Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plainly Chinese peasants did not spin all this organization out of their own heads. Most brains, much money are provided by Moscow's Third International. Brawn is easily picked up among China's thousands of out-of-work soldiers (China is "at peace" this spring, for the first time in ten years has no formal civil war going). Peasant support for the Red bandit forces has been won by propaganda, bribes even by putting firearms in peasant hands...
...hard-boiled Indian Service of Empress Victoria from Private to Sergeant Major, returned to help his father with house agenting, but drifted into Law. Thus when Frederick Edwin Smith was born at Birkenhead, on July 12, 1872, he inherited by right a wildcat's pugnacity and brawn, an old campaigner's slyness, a lawyer's bent...
...many opportunities: "writing" for newspaper syndicates, endorsing cosmetics, giving concerts. In London she would come to dinner for a flat sum. When her father's business failed it did not matter; Florence was now the family moneymaker. But she found the business of being a champion took more than brawn, more than brains; in self defense she had become a cold-eyed, hard-shelled racketeer. When the man she loved but thought she could not afford to marry finally saw what she had become, Florence realized at last she was hopelessly in love with him. Too late, she was wedded...
What could be more appropriate? The Nationalists are in effect the Irish of India ?except that they lack Irish brawn and Irish humor. They quarrel among themselves like Irishmen...