Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in and ready to die for the United States of America. Publish if you dare...
...Wisconsin and South Dakota. Said Mr. Walsh: "I have no campaign plans and no thought of quitting my duties here [in Washington] to promote my candidacy, if such it may be called. If my services to the party have been such as to entitle me to consideration . . . I dare say the rank and file are not ignorant of the fact...
Proponents of war, if any still dare so to style themselves, have excused the slaughter of millions on Malthusian grounds of reasoning; but not even the most heartless science can acquit humanity of guilt in the destruction of its noblest attainments. And still the nations, without even the wisdom of a burnt child, rush to heap ever higher their piles of weapons, that they know must inevitably, unless some power can stop the insane contest, fall upon them and bury them once more...
...agent Irving Strouse. They said: "Certain flowers have a brief but repetitive bloom; likewise a fashion, a joke, a publicity stunt. Press-agent Strouse was clever in that he accurately gauged the precise degree of reportorial gullibility; newshawks are perhaps to be excused for supposing that no one would dare attempt so blatant a hoax in the hope of practicing a deception. Press-agent Strouse indubitably won the game and the game was worth the candy." Smiling slyly, Press-agent Strouse despatched to the newsheets an advertisement for which he would have to pay in cash, an advertisement which...
...accurate! Not true to history!" boomed Dr. Sthamer, protesting the British-made cinema drama Dawn, depicting the life of Edith Cavell and shortly to be released. At such words Britons bristled. What was not accurate? Did any German, even the Ambassador, dare to question such authentic, stirring sequences as that, for example, in which Nurse Cavell, when led out to execution, dashes aside the proffered bandage for her eyes, and stands, chin up and fearless, before a German firing squad of eight...