Word: dares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extend over a full year, Professor Opdyke finds that he has a tremendous amount of ground to cover in a very short time. With this in mind he gives his lectures totally disregarding the fact that there are students trying to make notes of what he says. I dare say he will succeed in covering the ground. But he talks at such a rate that those who don't take notes even have trouble following, while those that do take notes face each lecture as a terrible ordeal. This, together with the relentless requirement of a certain number of prints...
...King hastily ordered a lying-in-state for the Field Marshal in Athens' Cathedral, sent condolences to his mother and three sisters. By this time the Army officers had elaborated their policy and sent to George II an "oral manifesto." This warned His Majesty not to dare to grant amnesty to pro-Venizelos officers chased out of Greece during the last Revolution. Obviously the King was suspected of being in a secret pact with M. Venizelos to bring the "Great Exile" back to Greece and make him Premier for the ninth time. Although no doubt willing to sell...
When Pianist Artur Schnabel announced that this year in Manhattan he would play the 32 Beethoven sonatas, skeptics shook their heads, wondered how even Schnabel would dare to challenge a public with a dose so tremendous. The cycle at Carnegie Hall would require seven stiff programs, one a week for seven weeks. Pianist Schnabel is not a glamorous figure, but a stubby, square-headed little Austrian who stalks woodenly on stage, seats himself leisurely at his piano, waits for quiet, proceeds to play as if he had no audience. When Schnabel decides on a program, his invariable comment...
...associates before the Nye-Clark committee won my ungrudging respect. It has become quite fashionable amongst politicians, at least too many of them, and young writers to ascribe our entry in the War to any reason but the true one-the U. S. could not afford, did not dare, see Germany win. . . . FRED G. HUNTINGTON Attorney at Law Billings, Mont...
...enemies of their country to gain solid benefits, at her expense & safety, under the guise of this same internationalism. But you of the right, composed of L'Action Française the clerics, the Royalists & the pretentious. Should the country be turned over to your clique? You dare to criticize the past 60 years government. What about yours during Louis XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII & Charles X? ... You say your enemies are Communists. Bad as it is, you are as bad! And you show your rottenness by attacking Free Masons; for those of France indeed are different from those...