Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legion that have heard the turn That rolls from the head of the Indian drum. It keeps its vigil with a measured thrum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" And never in the records has a wrong beat come- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" A brave and his bride once went for a sail And both of them perished in the terrible gale: But all that was heard was a single turn- There was just one beat of the Indian drum. The folks of the village were sad and glum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn...
...have spoken in my time at a number of public dinners and have proposed toasts on almost every subject under the sun. Tonight I speak with considerable embarrassment. ... It is not our national habit to invite men to dine to tell them how brave they...
...Irish uncle to be hanged. Needless to say, they were rejoined after Garrett had several times been wounded, and Author Byrne had avoided a solution of his original problem. But in this last novel he wove, as ever, the Hibernian, theatrical beauty of a style that many found so "brave" in The Wind Bloweth, so "radiant" in Messer Marco Polo, so "heart-wringing" in O'Malley of Shanganagh, so "tender" in Blind Raftery...
...Socialist Club has hired a staff of attorneys and will brave the terrors of the law by distributing the pamphlet to all comers in Harvard Square. A night in jail is a pleasant prospect for the Socialists, and they promise, it is rumored, to place the candidates for office in the same position by violating an ancient edict forbidding the placarding of telegraph posts. With the local elections due shortly, practically all the candidates for jobs have had their pictures pasted on the posts. Where the rivalry between law and order and politicians on the one hand and the Harvard...
...decided then that we must go through everything in the recognized legal way. I was divorced, and my former wife is now happily married to another man. I married Miss Austral. "How dare the Church criticize us? Supposing there had been no divorce? Supposing that we had not been brave and moral enough to take the matter to the courts, and lived the kind of life so many others are living today? What is the answer of the Church to that? . . ." Nellie Melba (Mrs. Nellie Porter Armstrong), as everyone knows, invented her professional name, using the first letters...