Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was an almost defiant smile on Coach Charley Whiteside's face yesterday as he watched the first two Varsity crews race down the half mile straight-away and finish in the choppy water neck and neck for a tie. Princeton and Navy showed themselves to be among the fastest crews on the mile and three quarter course in the country; but Charley is sure that his crew will be able to come in ahead of the Tigers on Lake Carnegie, May 5, if it registers the expected improvement in the next two weeks...
...enlist, once sworn at as a "damn bitch of an anarchist.''* Emma Goldman was deported to Russia during Attorney General Mitchell Palmer's anti-Red drive of 1919. She spent years wandering across Europe. Few months ago, faded and old (64) but still defiant, she went to Toronto on a British passport, applied for permission to re-enter the U. S. for 90 days. She wanted to visit friends in Rochester where 45 years ago she was a seamstress in a clothing factory. While the State Department was considering her case, she said last week...
...Senator, defied the Attorney General to take $120 worth of gold he was holding despite the President's anti-hoarding order (TiME, May 15). The Government de clined peppery old Mr. Thomas' invitation to make a test case of his violation. Last week aged, defiant Hoarder Thomas lay ill in his hoary red stone Denver mansion, but he was pleased to know that one member of his family was to go to court to defend what the Thomases believed were their Constitutional right...
...great ancestor, John Churchill, original Duke of Marlborough. Churchills will applaud this sturdily belligerent defense of a family name they consider much maligned. Historians may be amused at Biographer Winston's irrepressibly stout language (he is a past master in the violent use of rubberstamp phrases) and defiant bias. U. S. readers will find Marlborough entertainingly Tory reading, will look forward to the volumes still to come...
Meanwhile in Linz, Austria, hundreds of witnesses were found who had seen a plane from Germany swoop down and drop leaflets containing Nazi threats against the Austrian Government of small, defiant Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss...