Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink or imitate the ways of the Gentiles. For several years he had been married to a slender, dark-eyed girl named Bella Finkel who had played opposite him in the Yiddish Theatre. After We Americans, Muni Weisenfreund went to Hollywood where, renamed Paul Muni, he made The Valiant and Seven Faces, neither of which won him cinema fame. He returned to Broadway in 1931 for the smash success Counsellor-at-Law, and after that made his first hit movie, Scarface. Since then he has made I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Hi, Nellie, Bordertown, Black Fury...
...existence a Chinese regime more or less under Japan's thumb which is now governing Hopei and Chahar. An able, ambiguous and shrewd Chinese, General Sung Cneh-yuan, heads this regime known as the "Hopei-Chahar Political Council," and it was his troops who last week fought with valiant "broadswords" in obscure villages and lolled about in Tientsin railway stations...
...Only the valiant efforts of Captain John Witherspoon held the bewildered Crimson defense together during the first half. Recovering from two Eli tallies in the opening minutes the stickmen tied the count at two apiece on goals by Tom Campion and Austie Scott. But goals by Henry an Smith put the Bulldogs ahead at the half...
...pictures involving 1) soldiers, 2) gangsters, 3) emotional triangles. To balance its defects, They Gave Him A Gun, no masterpiece but a fast-moving, adult screen play, has the ad vantage of highly proficient performances by its three principals, notably Gladys George in her first major role since Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. Good shot: Jimmy's version of the feat that got him the Croix de Guerre...
...Ward and daughter Birdie. Commercially moribund, Jefferson now saw its population shrink to 2,515 by 1910. The city still had an air of faded grandeur, however, sufficient to impress young Barry Benefield, a local boy who later made his home town the scene of best-selling Valiant is the Word for Carrie...