Word: dare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorials are concerned, they represent the opinions of the editor or the owners of his paper. The owner's point of view is largely influenced by his desire to keep on good terms with the big advertising interests. With a few-honorable exceptions no newspapers of wide circulation dare to antagonize the wishes of big business...
...have lost some of their ripeness and velocity. . . . But a storm is brewing. . . . There will be a distinct movement to repeal this act under this slogan of 'oppression of small enterprise.' It won't be a forthright open movement for repeal. These gentlemen do not dare do that. Some of this will be done by a Senator whom I love for his intestinal fortitude perhaps more than any Senator other than Carter Glass. . . . It will be an attempt to put in the act about three lines forbidding action by any industry in unison and in effect substituting...
...Palace of Justice this week Deputy Andre Hesse, onetime lawyer of Swindler Stavisky, was set upon and his robe nearly torn off by an indignant young attorney who kept shouting "How dare you show yourself here!" Pummeling each other the two rolled on the floor until separated and dragged before the president of the Paris Bar for a slashing reprimand...
...dullard, the scholar and the professional wrestler. . . . To know whether the brain can show what has to be born, and how much the brain we are born with can be expected to develop by use as well as suffer from misuse and disease. We must learn what we may dare to do in brain surgery. We must know more about changes under drugs and complexities of function; more about the nutritional support the brain depends upon to do its best...
...Doubleday, Derail ($2.50). When Greta Garbo's latest picture was released this week, cinemaddicts learned an historical fact: there was once a ruler of Sweden named Christina. But Authoress Goldsmith's biography gives a clearer picture of what manner of woman she was than Hollywood would ever dare. Not a first-rate book, Christina of Sweden at least gives U. S. readers a glimpse of one of the lesser-known figures of history. Only child of the great Gustavus Adolphus, Christina (1626-89) should have been a man, for she always acted like one. Short, ugly and unfeminine...