Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot feel as we do. . . . Since the beginning of time men with the best intentions have been writing laws for our good. Since the beginning of time brave and valiant women have been abolishing these same laws. . . ." ¶ Throughout the week Chief U. S. Delegate Charles Evans Hughes labored manfully in subcommittee to prevent the drafting into a code of Pan-American International Law of any clause which would tend to prevent the U. S. from intervening in Latin American countries...
...been incautiously heralded so often since that it pleases her to ponder a question which few painters would be brave enough to frame: "What do they think about these things when they go home to supper?" The people who stare at her pictures of apples, pears, eggplants, leaves, stalks, high buildings, rivers and tremendous flowers, interest her enormously. She, like George Bellows and unlike almost every other U. S. artist, has never gone abroad and doesn't want to; she paints all day on the 30th floor of the Shelton Hotel, Manhattan; her face is austere and beautiful; she does...
Next day every one talks about the brave fellow who, while others dithered, plunged in through the burning hall and saved a life. The burned-out neighbors thank him profusely. The servant thanks him. He is a hero, for a while?and then life gets back to routine. The fire becomes a legend...
...summing up, the Lord Chief Justice, Baron Hewart, came near to sneering at the petty successes of the accused. Said he: "The word spy has been used time after time in this case. The word seems misapplied when used concerning either of you. A spy is very often a brave man who, for the sake of his country, encounters a very serious personal risk, but in these matters you have been doing nothing for your country...
...other poems are an interesting group of songs and sighs; some awkward and untamed like children at their first party; some cool and keenly expressive of a poised and brave linguist. For great audacity is revealed in the fact that the book contains not only self-expression in English but reveries and sighs in Latin and German...