Word: intrepidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labelled my performance "scintillating," or "nervously exciting," or "intrepid," I could write to you without misgiving. But you have blasted me with "dull." Already I see next fall's "dull" and "truculent" blotting the page...
Members of the staff will be on hand at the exit door to corrall, congratulate, and interview this intrepid hero, and to clock his time against that of previous winners. Post-time is 12 o'clock...
...dentists gave three silent cheers last week for Dr. Walter C. McBride, an intrepid fellow. Dr. McBride, director of children's dentistry at the University of Michigan, spoke a heartfelt mouthful about mothers who insist on following their young into the operating room. Particularly objectionable: the mother-knows-it-hurts type; the ones who say "Johnny, spit like the dentist told you to." Mama, Dr. McBride forcibly implied, should stay the hell in the waiting room...
...intrepid Guerrilla and able Administrator Confesor, TIME'S thanks for an honest opinion. But the definitive ruling on Roxas' much-disputed role in the Jap occupation must come from the Philippine people, who will decide April 23 whether they want him or Sergio Osmeña for their first President under independence...
...pinwheel-shaped Acrobat from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art for the occasion, invited six young U.S. abstractionists (Calder, Motherwell, et al.) to paint circus pictures to go with Léger's. The catalogue cover hopefully urged gallerygoers to see clowns, tumblers, bareback riders, and other intrepid performers. Some of their jigsaw abstractions looked as if they had played with kaleidoscopes instead of seeing a circus. Léger's Acrobats with White Horse and slant-eyed, four-ringed Chinese Juggler (see cut) were the hit of the show, as they were meant...