Word: bravadoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death penalty for attempts on the Premier's life is not retroactive (TIME, Nov. 15, 22), and would-be-assassin Tito Zaniboni faced, last week, a maximum penalty of 27 years in jail. His bravado was prodigious...
...constrictor. But Penn State students! None the less they were themselves to eat snake flesh to maintain a college tradition. Goggly-eyed, some watched their cook strip the skin from five rattlesnakes, gut them, parboil the sleek joints. The 20 freshmen ate, wearing the green grin of bravado...
...father of a clever boy named Wilbur. "This is monstrous! Encouraging kids like Wilbur to try flying next . . . making them dissatisfied with automobiles, which are dangerous enough, goodness knows. This Society will have them running away from home, bumming around flying fields, hooking rides on the mail planes . . . reckless bravado . . . inexperienced . . . premature ascent . . . broken necks . . . weeping families ... a shameful offer . . . monstrous...
...mourners' bench. That same night he gets a backful of buckshot from Peck Bradley, a murderer out on bail. Religion picks up. Bloodhounds bay for three days and nights in the back hills and Bradley is brought in to jail, crusted with mud but full of bravado. Sharing his contempt for the law and seething with Old Testament, the community grows ominously quiet. Abner suggests a plan; feet tramp, a rope is knotted and what was Peck Bradley twists slowly in the air near his ambush...
...incident of the fighting reported from the French front: Major Chartrane, commanding a bat talion of colored troops, ordered an advance. Looking down his line, he saw an officer on horse back. Infuriated by such reckless bravado, he rushed down the line shouting to the officer to dismount. When he came close he discovered that the mounted man was Lieut. De Latour, who had often led his company into battle. A short time before he had been shot dead. Two black sergeants had placed his body on a horse and were holding it upright so that he might once more...