Word: dared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard occasionally produces a courageous soul who dares to be exotic--I can no longer use "original" honestly--and such a soul is Dos Passos. Having shocked America with "The Three Soldiers", helped the Dramatic Club with lunar and spectacular fantasy in three acts and Battle Hall, now puts all of New York in a single novel. Anybody--anybody who would dare to put all of New York into anything but a telephone book is a hero and a genius. To do it takes courage,--but not necessarily a sense of humor. If you think so, read the book...
...Michael Webb (friend of readers of Bunk) establishes himself at Echo Hill Inn in Connecticut. In this labyrinthine tavern with steps up, steps down from room to room, with a billiard room that is half of the kitchen marked off by a broad red line across which the cooks dare not tread but over which they pasa nicely browned sausages or still-warm tarts to the loungers in the billiard department?in this delectable tavern foregather Michael Webb and claimants to culture. Their discursive and argumentative flights?hodgepodge of raillery and provocative philosophy?are the substance of the book. Three...
...there are heretics. Herctics who dare to shout from the housetops that this collegiate cult is not the true faith. The reformers claim not that the faith is wholly false but that it leads to that which is false to standards of collegiate life which the foundners of football never contemplated and never would approve...
...Last week he gave his hounds of speech a preliminary run: "With Borah as its leader in foreign affairs, challenging the Administration's position with reference to the World Court, and Dawes, the Mussolini of American politics, threatening invasion and destruction to those of his political faith who dare oppose his Senatorial reform views, the poor old Republican Party is in for rough sledding and a hard time...
...Bokanowski, a leader of the Right, offered to support the measure if the amount of inflation were cut in two. M. Briand roared-"Never! If you would overthrow me, dare...