Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without comfort. I loved Miss Austral and she loved me and we still love one another. We decided then that we must go through everything in the recognized legal way. I was divorced, and my former wife is now happily married to another man. I married Miss Austral. "How dare the Church criticize us? Supposing there had been no divorce? Supposing that we had not been brave and moral enough to take the matter to the courts, and lived the kind of life so many others are living today? What is the answer of the Church to that? . . ." Nellie Melba...
...factory apprentices. There will be, of course, no church. Specifications call for such typically U. S. details as automatic fire sprinkler systems in all buildings. Few concerns would dare contract to build such a city in 15 months. Gigantic specialist, the Austin Co. keeps in stock all essential parts of a carefully standardized line of buildings, is expert at getting these assembled by local labor. Thus only Austin engineers will go to Austingrad and all the actual assembling and construction on the spot will be done by Russians. From the founding of the company in 1904 it has sloganed: "Undivided...
...whole day quietly with his family before roaring back to Rome. Most Mussolinesque of his children is eldest daughter Edda. She, reputedly born before the civil marriage of her father was solemnized by the Church, now maintains a superior patronizing air toward daughters of the Roman aristocracy who dare not snub her in return. Recently she toured India, was pampered by Maharajas; presented with two tigers. Like Papa Benito she swims, dives, pilots a racing motor, sometimes takes the joystick of an air- plane. When he is away she is said to give orders to Bruno and Vittorio, but adores...
...swimming with their clothes on. Mrs. Roosevelt, afraid that they might catch cold, bustled off for a homely medicine. " 'Father, won't you ask her not to give us ginger?' He looked at us quizzically. 'Children!' he said, 'I don't dare interfere. I shall be fortunate if she does not give me ginger...
...Fight for Matterhorn (German). Knowing that audiences all over the world have been bored by faked scenes illustrating the perils of Alpine mountaineering, the producers of The Fight for Matterhorn did not dare to let their fly-like heroes start up the icy ledges until they had roped them together with a story. The anecdote they devised is a silly one about two men who were racing to see which of them could get up Matterhorn first, and how one suspected the other of wanting his wife. Hollywood scenarists could have got out something much better, but no Hollywood company...