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...pounds less (210) and stood not higher than his shoulder. In days that were, Zbyszko himself had been a champion, but those days were past. Philadelphians gathered to the match with the steadfast mien of people attending a wake. They admired Zbyszko's courage* but deplored his bravado...
...Armide, Weber's Euryanthe. His feats of memory have become legend. Never has he been seen to use a score. In his head are over 100 operas, in addition to an enormous concert repertoire. When the jealous ask, "Why does he not use a score?" they answer themselves "Bravado." It is not bravado. Toscanini is so nearsighted that he cannot read a note that is more than half a foot under his nose. Long before ever his great night in Rio de Janeiro, he scraped his big fiddle with no white sheets propped up before him. "Where is your...
...late hour last night not to cancel their annual baseball game with the CRIMSON, to be held on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This new step brings to an end the many speculations brought about by the challenge which the lampoon, in a spirit of bravado that was soon after regretted, sent to the CRIMSON Saturday afternoon. The challenge reads as follows...
...AUBURN STREET, May 12.--After a three hour conference late this afternoon CRIMSON representatives succeeded in forcing the cringing cohorts of Lampy to sign articles for the annual diamond contest of brain and brawn. Immediately after the conference, however, in a desperate spirit of bravado, Lampy handed the CRIMSON the following challenge...
...manifestly absurd to deprive the nation of their traditional joy on St. Patrick's Day, no matter what might be the political or economic exigencies. Again, when framing the "order," de Valera must have known that he could not possibly enforce it. The cause of this bravado seems somehow lost in its effect...