Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressional Record the Lenroot roll-call as compiled by Pressman Mallon. Up rose Pennsylvania's haggard, young Senator Reed to demand enforcement of the Senate's secrecy rule. Complained he bitterly: "There is some hypocrite here who prattles out loud about law enforcement and in secrecy does what he dare not do publicly and gives out information." He called for the expulsion of any Senators who had given Pressman Mallon his in formation, announced a meeting of the Rules Committee to deal with this matter, and continued...
...Lockheed-Vega ship with seats for five. It can make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...
...impatiently awaited budget speech -the speech on which prophets have declared that Britain's general elections would turn-was delivered to a packed and eager House of Commons, last week, by the empire's most amazing statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Journalism, dare-devil soldiering, music, history-book-scrivening,* politics, dabbing with oil paints - these are a few of the careers of Winston, who entered the War as Chief of the British Admiralty, switched to Secretary of War and later Air, emerged from the conflict as Colonial Secretary, became Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...second All-American Aircraft Show last week. Several thousand sightseers and several score actual plane purchasers each day could comfortably inspect 104 plane models, exhibited by 44 oldtime and 16 freshly organized manufactories. Planes ranged from the tricky little Heath at $975, which only the best of pilots dare handle, to the $67,500 Fokker, for which, with its ornate fittings* Cadillac's President Lawrence P. Fisher just paid $75,000. In between were sturdy one and two-seater open cockpit monoplanes and biplanes. Most models, however, were "closed jobs," built as coupes, sedans, coaches, cabins, buses...
Male Brooke of Liverpool hinted darkly that "certain masculine women dare do all that may become a man. . . . Pupils of both sexes should be vigorously protected from the influence of persons of that type...