Word: fearlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prey for them. [Moreover] every police chief knows that a hunted criminal watches the sensational newspapers to keep him posted on the developments of the search for him. . . ." Why should yellow newspapers be able to get and print such news? Editor Bingay was sympathetic. "A courageous police chief, a fearless prosecutor, or a high-minded judge who . . . fights against such outrageous newspaper conduct finds himself the storm centre of a lot of trumped-up charges. 'Oh,' says the yellow editor, 'you won't give us a break, hey? All right...
...shoddy materials his friends the contractors supplied him. Consequently he got a bad reputation, lapsed into weak self-pity. When his brother decided to reside in England permanently, Stephen managed to join him again, began to let his business slide. Maxwell bought "Shipmates," the country seat of Sir Nigel Fearless, a bankrupt baronet, who promptly proceeded to drown himself as a family tradition required. Great was Stephen's resentment when his brother fell in love with the baronet's widow, made a will in her favor. He felt that he had been unjustly cheated out of an inheritance...
...does not suffer; Hertha Thiele interprets the part of Manuela with great talent and understanding, and the principal, Emilia Unda, brings a terrorizing sincerity to the role. Dorothea Wieck, who enacts the part of the friendly Fraulein von Bernburg, which appeals to every one in the audience, shows a fearless idealism...
...estimation, but beyond Mr. Adams does not go. Should it not be possible for one who has, in Mr. Adams' happy phrase, "lived with the writings of Henry Adams" to give some suggestion of Adams' influence upon his times, of his place in an era? John Adams was the fearless spokesman of his period, John Quincy Adams was the barker of the side show of the 1820's, '30's, and '40's. So much is a matter of history; these two men caught something of the spirit of the fragments of time in which they lived, and they directed...
...become more & more a phenomenon of U. S. journalism. Unspeakably blatant, it declared itself "The Big Brother of The League of Rocky Mountain and Plains States, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana and South Dakota." It called itself a "gladiator invincible, fearless, determined, with a giant's strength, a philosopher's mentality. . . . The champion of every good, and pure, and noble, and holy and righteous cause. . . ." Sprinkled through its pages (and always over fair weather reports) was the legend "'Tis a Privilege to Live in Colorado." Bloodiest stories and pictures...