Word: braver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everyman, Twelfth Night, Dr. Faustus; such a novelty as W. S. Gilbert's Tom Cobb, or Fortune's Toy; such modern plays as Biography, High Tor, The Petrified Forest. Last week it tackled John Webster's difficult Elizabethan horror play, The Duchess of Malfi, proved itself braver than Broadway, which last produced the play in 1858. (Two seasons ago Orson Welles planned to do it, got cold feet...
...Allen Duncan and her Auntie, who, Joy neglected to say, lost her 13-year-old daughter in the sinking, but it was not all for many a skipper who must continue to dodge mines, many an unsung hero who must sow them, many an even braver man who must sweep them to make way for men o' war, transports, supply ships. Technique learned in the bitter school of 1914-18 is now in full play on both sides of World...
...Russian Bolsheviks are not redeemed in interest even by the magnitude of their crimes. . . . They have emerged from the prison cells of the Cheka to make their strange unnatural confessions to the world. They have met the death in secret to which they consigned so many better and braver...
...stomach. In London last week being feted was Belgian Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland, and his English hosts had to do or say something. Up at an International Chamber of Commerce luncheon for Premier van Zeeland got handsome and willowy young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to utter words braver and bolder than he has ever used in the House of Commons or the Council of the League of Nations...
Toronto but put on braver exhibitions than the Crimson showed in Madison Square Garden Saturday