Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sixth Act. Incredibly encouraged husband, and seeming father, Sam is making huge business strides. Darrell, still sharply in love, returns. Nina, still at heart his mistress, welcomes him but they still dare not tell...
...further pious interjection was made by Chief Bolivian Delegate Jose Antezana who plaintively remarked that his country has no outlet to the sea, but did not quite dare to propose that she be given one through Tacna-Arica, that notorious region so immemorially in dispute between Chile and Peru (TIME...
...which the British Parliament had taken care to exclude all Roman Catholic claimants. To-day is barely two centuries later than that time-when a religious issue was paramount in settling the First George upon his throne (1714). Has England changed so greatly that the Fifth George can dare to remain aloof from the great and present issue between Pro-Catholic and Pro-Protestant members of the Church of England...
...Spirit of St. Louis hovers uncertainly over a polo field, swerves downward, barely missing a skein of telegraph wires, touches and runs almost to the field's end; The crowd cries in wonder. Col. Lindbergh has brought his plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism...
Nowadays "racket" plays are pasted up by newspaper folk from clippings of their daily stint, with interpolations of plot and jargon which the newspapers know but would not dare print. Celebrity handles the prizefight "racket" with an intimacy that may annoy Fisticuffers Dempsey and Tunney. Of their characters, careers and managers, the Celebrity, "Barry Regan," and his impressario, " 'Circus' Snyder," are licensed composites. Personal mannerisms alone are spared. As for the women the play involves, and the shady proposition of the big promoter, theatregoers can only conjecture how libelous Reporter-Playwright Willard Keefe has been in his notably...