Word: intrepidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moana" was produced by those two intrepid explorers, the Flahertys, who startled the world with "Nanook of the North", a short time ago. In a way "Moana" is like its predecessor, for it tells a simple story simply, chooses its settings carefully, and lends to both the aid of superb photography. But unlike the cold North, Polynesia has always seemed to us full of haunting fascinating images, suggested by Robert Louis Stevenson and vivified by Mr. O'Brien's delightful book, "White Shadows in the South Seas". The Flahertys have been merely concerned in adjusting those impressions of warm passive...
...blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps tired of liberty. They have had an orgy of it. Liberty today is no longer the chaste and severe virgin for whom fought and died the generations of the first half of the past century. For the youths of today, intrepid, eager, stern, who envisage the dawn of a new era, there are other words which exercise a more potent fascination: Order, Hierarchy, Discipline...
...that Postman Dole had been well advised to seek out M. Painlevé with his model. Statesman Painlevé is known among the little circle of the mathematically learned as a veritable genius for abstruse calculation, and he has long employed that faculty in toying with the difficult problems of aerodynamics. Intrepid, he was the first Frenchman to fly with Wilbur Wright. Since the early days of that adventure he has kept a firm grip upon both the practice and the theory of aeronautics...
...great poet of Italy; he was from early times a member, and for a while the President, of the Dante Society of Cambridge. The articles which he published from time to time dealt for the most part with elusive problems of language or literature, and always with the same intrepid precision. These publications won him high renown abroad and, by reflection, at home. A youthful product, 'A Short German Grammar...
...minutes intrepid Mr. Payne was chatting with him. "That conversation," stated Mr. Payne, "convinced me that the man is insane and ought to be locked up." Next day all gum-chewing Manhattan read his furious attack on Thaw...