Word: dare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dare we look into the future if this graduation from the collegiate bourgeoisie to a higher sophistication goes on? Will our beloved Stanford rough drop into the limbo of forgotten might? Will we see no more paper airplanes sailing in the Assembly Hall? For surely a freshman smooth enough to resist the attacks of those veteran Encina salesmen could never become rough enough to go unshaven and smoke a cigar...
Amid pandemonium the Deputies voted "adjourment until tomorrow," thus constituting themselves a Rump Reichstag. Rumors flew that 84-year-old Paul von Hindenburg would declare martial law, call out the Army and disperse the Reichstag with bayonets should it dare to meet. Not anxious to be pinched or prodded, Fascist Göring said that, after all, perhaps there might be no rump session...
...love stories make a hero of the disgruntled suitor; few authors would dare try. Jean Fayard, son and employe of a Paris publisher, flirted with the idea but did not let his flirtation go too far. As a result, his "true love story" won the coveted Prix Goncourt (1931) over such competitors as Saint Saturnin and Night Flight (TIME...
...Duce Benito Mussolini has never been one to bow to mass opinion, nor is he above giving the retort discourteous to those who dare criticize his actions. Five weeks ago there were murmurs of disapproval when he jolted the entire Fascist organization with the biggest shake-up in years, deposed ministers right and left and assumed two Cabinet posts himself. The hopes of those who felt that Fascism should have outgrown the necessity for such moves were withered last week by Il Duce's announcement that he was thinking seriously of taking over three more Cabinet posts, the Ministries...
...Governor Tang rushed eight motor truck loads of "treasure" from Jehol into the Italian Settlement at Tientsin last week. Thus, if General Tang sides with Japan, the Japanese garrison at Tientsin will render his treasure particularly safe. If on the contrary he sides with China, the Japanese will scarcely dare to seize treasure over which flies the flag of Italy...