Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomma-tom, tom-tomma-tom-tom," went the tom-tom. The squaws rocked on their haunches, crooning. Out leaped an Osage brave in a stamping dance. Other braves followed, a shuffling, foot-thumping, swaying line. One of the dancers was covered with small mirrors. Now and then some one whooped. Emmet Thompson, a young Kaw who has made millions in oil, directed the proceedings. He and most of the 2,000 other Kaws, Pawnees, Otos and Osages present had come in first-class automobiles...
...husband's hospitality), her visit to Kernel Pasha (another wife's jealousy interfering), her camping trip with Charlie Chaplin (the press descending on the fifth day to claim him for its own). And it is not as a wanderlusty siren that she presents herself, but as the brave, beautiful woman who rushes in with passionate intellectual curiosity where goody-goodies fear to tread. With the highly respectable necessity of supporting her two children she turns sculptress and newspaper correspondent, following the scantest lead to new quarry. Mussolini's large feet she found grotesquely absurd, his shuffling step...
...nobler than a brave retreat...
...professor from a quizzer to a guide; it removes the threat of periodic examinations and of the cramming that anticipates them; and for the old lock-step education it substitutes individual freedom of movement. Although President Holt in criticizing the recitation and lecture system of Yale and Harvard is brave and heralded in combatting the present movement toward complete freedom in study, his retrogression toward the grammar school is quite unacceptable. The virtue of final examination is at present a subject of persistent editorial inquiry by the Yale News, and its conclusions bear out the findings of President Holt...
...Brave men of the Hamburg Fire Department donned masks intended merely for protection against smoke and rolled the leaking phosgene tank into the nearby canal. Heroes, they were rushed to hospitals, given milk and other antidotes. The entire milk supply of Hamburg was commandeered for the hospitals. Some babies not gassed went hungry until more milk arrived...