Word: fearlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell was a born controversialist and she was notoriously one of the most outspoken and fearless critics in the history of any literature. The poetic renaissance called her best faculties into play, and she used them with striking success from the time when her memorable--and triumphant--quarrel with the mercurial Pound began in 1913, until her death. She was never more magnificent than when confronted by ill-natured opponents in a lecture-room. On the other hand, there was never a fairer opponent than she, nor one more ready to make friends again. Yet polemics provided but one channel...
Since it was last week's decision of the Great Powers that Spaniards should stew in their own blood, this fearless, heroic and cruel people continued the appalling exhibition which makes modern historians write after each war in Spain that the country is "still in some respects medieval...
...poor an attraction was Father Dillinger and his stories of Son John that his female manager discharged him after three days. Second most ballyhooed exhibit of the Midway was "The Bouquet of Life," a "fearless, daring, beautiful" series of human embryos from three days to 240. For Cleveland's tremendous (72%) foreign population the Exposition offered the "Streets of the World," in which 36 nationalities were represented, with and without food. Expositions are made or marred by the amount of female nudity on display...
...London's press this finding was grand news. "It is impossible to read the cold and fearless words of the report without a feeling of pride, surely not unpardonable, in our public and parliamentary traditions," cried the Labor Daily Herald. "For comparison," boomed the Conservative Daily Express, "you need to [recall] the Stavisky Scandal in France and the United States Teapot Dome oil scandals, which dragged on for years." In editorials of modest understatement, Fleet Street reminded everyone that only six weeks had elapsed since the Budget leaked- another record for British Justice, swift & sure...
...United Front underground organization includes about 75,000 Communists, 75,000 Revolutionary Socialists and 80,000 trade unionists. Wrecked by the Feb. 12, 1934 revolt, the Social Democratic Schutz-bund still has a fearless nucleus and lots of guns. Against these is a Nazi organization of 55,000, chiefly among farmers and students...