Word: intrepidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Withdrawal. Last year when Fox Film was hovering near receivership, its old bankers, Halsey, Stuart & Co., put up a marvelous fight. But this year Halsey, Stuart & Co. did not behave as intrepid ghost-layers should. On the eve of Mr. Wiggin's party an announcement was made that Halsey, Stuart & Co. had retired from the entire proceedings. Wall Street became a little more nervous. The ghost, it seemed, must indeed be a big ghost if Halsey, Stuart & Co. backed out, for the firm was one of the first houses to finance motion picture enterprises. Rumored as the chief reason...
...municipal administration of Senor Gomez, discovered a complete bomb factory, 200 pounds of dynamite, fuses, tin cans, other impedimenta, not counting piles of rifles and revolvers. Lieut. Calvo did even better. He found a bomb factory and arrested the operators. Scouring the cliffs above Havana along the Almendares River intrepid Lieut. Calvo popped into a cave, pulled out one Andres Niebla Torres, one Luis Mutiz and 129 bombs each containing eight pounds of dynamite. Handy were 25 cans of powdered dynamite, several barrow-loads of iron odds & ends...
...intrepid insurgents call themselves the Emergency Conservation Committee. Members are Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, Manhattan socialite; Irving Brant of the St. Louis Star; Henry Carey, Philadelphia lawyer; Davis Quinn, Manhattan nature-lore writer. They prepared to make the meeting of the National Audubon Societies next week an explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies...
...another vessel and learned that Andree had taken carrier pigeons with him, so a sailor was sent back in a small boat and he took the dead bird from the water and on its tiny body was found the only word ever received from the intrepid explorer and his brave companions. For over 30 years that article of mine remained unnoticed in an old scrap book but at the August meeting of our local society for the prevention of cruelty, I read the article aloud to the members. Next day word came of the discovery of the remains of Andree...
...this point some intrepid mockers rose in the hall, noisily stamped towards exits. The great organ of the hall pealed, drowned out the disturbance...