Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From every danger free...
...Addressed a State American Legion convention at Wichita on Labor Day. declared: "I believe we can do much by intelligent legislation to lessen the danger of being drawn into a war with which we have no real concern. But after all the Spirit of America must be our main reliance in staying out of war. . . . We must keep our heads...
...most evident that an orator who inveighs against persons who represent the supreme social authorities, with the evident danger of shaking the respect that the people owe to those authorities, sins against the elementary proprieties. The impropriety is greater as well as more evident when the orator is a priest...
...Incredible hand-to-hand encounters followed, in which men threw themselves on top of each other in utter disregard of danger, perfectly contemptuous of death, bombing, slashing, stabbing and firing; forcing themselves forward step by step into the labyrinthine maze of underground passages in the old fort; climbing over the bodies of slain and wounded, both sides, howling and crying in a scarcely human...
...danger of James Fenimore Cooper's works as cinema material is that, without his sombre prose (admired by Maxim Gorki and imitated by Joseph Conrad) they generally boil down into an antique kind of penny-dreadful. Scenarists Philip Dunne, John Balderston, Paul Perez, and Daniel Moore worked in shifts for more than a year to keep this from happening to The Lasf of the Mohicans. Net result is an intelligent and exciting version of a story, which, properly loaded with physical action, keeps the imprint of literature...