Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarke, her cousin, testifies that when he saw her with somebody she said she was with "no man," a statement which the listeners take to mean that she was with Beelzebub. After that only Roger's opportune horseback arrival could possibly save her life. In spite of valiant effort by a harassed cast, the dialog is of the prithee and methinks kind and never gets the strophe of real human talk. MacMurray, heretofore a trade emblem of flip 20th-century youth, invents a kind of brogue which fails to transport him back two centuries and a half. Best shots...
...correspondents thus far permitted to interview General Jose Miaja, valiant "Defender of Madrid," have mostly been given whispered warnings by his secretary: "Please do not mention his family! Only twice in my life have I seen the General weep-he is most courageous-but please not to mention his family. Hostages, you know! They have been held since the beginning of the war in Morocco, and the General knows that at any moment they may be shot...
...appearance. That two years should have passed between teams of what used to be an almost weekly feature of the paper, is an indication of the new photographic budget imposed by what used to be called "The Depression." Since that time, due to, or in a spite of, the valiant efforts of government agencies more people are making more money. Among these people are to be found isolated groups such as the CRIMSON who are willing to spend some of their carnings. Among these expenditures will be found a considerable sum applied to the publication of several more pictorial supplements...
...work in color photography, "God's Country and The Woman" is unexcelled, but the plot, while appropriate to the scenery, is weak. It is the old, old tale of the valiant young girl who for reasons of her own carries on a man's job against tremendous odds, only to break down and become a woman again when the right man comes along...
Bearing the inscription "In memory of Richard G. Ames 1912-35 and Henry R. Ames 1914-35 lost at sea in a valiant effort to rescue their father--Greater love hath no man," a bronze placque was hung in the office of Phillips Brooks House yesterday...