Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baby, breaks up Mole's engagement to a rich Irish girl, ages two years in time, ten years in feminine finesse. John Barry Benefield's new novel is cut to the same master pattern as his previous successes (The Chicken-Wagon Family, about 50,000 copies; Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, over 75,000 copies). Like them, it should please readers willing to "enter upon a surprising and beautiful adventure" wherein dream girls are "spirited, but with moderation, in the classic way." Like his hero, Mole, slight, whimsical Novelist Benefield has been a publisher's editor...
...Soldier Adolf Hitler traveled by plane, for the first time in more than a year, to address 250,000 War veterans at Kassel. He assured his former comrades that they had waged in 1914-18 a valiant war, only to be betrayed at Versailles by a spineless Government. To the Führer the World War was caused by British and French ambitions to destroy Germany, "the same objectives that animate the encirclement politicians of today." But Germany, he added, will never be sold down the river again, for "I have seen to it that anyone who has anything...
...fell below the value of the Chinese dollar, the yen falling under 16? while the Chinese dollar held firm at 16.11?. For the Japanese, who have been trying to persuade the Chinese that their money was just as good as Chiang Kai-shek's and who have made valiant efforts to keep Japanese-sponsored currency at par with the British and U S-supported Chinese dollar, this was as serious as a big defeat on the battlefield Many a Chinese coolie, farmer or worker in Japanese "conquered" territory has even on pain of death preferred the "harder" Chinese money...
...Democratic National Committeeman Patrick A. Nash, when those potent bosses tried to ditch him two years ago. Last week, with Ed Kelly's position as No. 2 Democrat and his chances of reinstating himself as No. i at stake, the hefty, curly-headed, 62-year-old mayor did valiant battle with another Kelly-Nash deserter...
...Dartmouth's fast six was just too much for a valiant but outplayed Harvard team here tonight as the Indian puckmen completed their second consecutive undefeated Quadrangular League season with a 4 to 2 victory over the Cantabs...