Word: defiantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dominion Parliament and upheld by the Australian High Court last week. Thus clothed with supreme authority, Premier Lyons promptly made proclamation to the citizens of New South Wales, ordered them to pay income taxes into his Federal Treasury and not into the State Treasury of their own defiant State Pcemier John Thomas Lang...
...Dublin sorely harassed President de Valera, made uneasy by the unexpected pressure of men far away on opposite sides of the earth, put aside his first defiant draft reply to Mother Britain, called in leading Irish lawyers, anxiously fussed over their suggested drafts and redrafts...
...Goldman's fighting Red career is finished, you may even find it possible to add a kind of warmth to your disapproving admiration of her. That is, after you have read her own story of her stormy life. To look at her as she appears now, with that hard, defiant old face, that grim and challenging eye, it is easy to see how hateful, what a nuisance society found her; you would never guess how many lovers she has had, how many friends...
...grandmother was a star witness for the defense, Constance May's mother was a planetary witness. In a stage-Bostonian accent she told of how she went to the theatre every night with her mother, met Mr. Cannon. In a defiant voice she recounted visits to his rooms; of never telling him she had borne him a child...
...fingertips a wealth of material which I would not use. I knew better than the average the weaknesses of mankind, the errors; I had seen human relations at their most naked, human emotions when the bars were down and the soul peered out, heroic, cowardly or defiant. Yet I could not write of these things. I did not want to recall them. To this moment realism is easy for me, much easier than other writing. ... I turned to romance, to crime, to farce, to adventure; anything but reality...