Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Napoleon's last will and testament: "It is my wish that my ashes shall be laid to rest on the bank of the Seine, in the midst of the French people ... I shall meet my brave warriors in the Elysian Fields. ... We shall talk of our battles to the Scipios, to Hannibal, Caesar and Frederick. What a delight that will be! If only people here on earth are not terrified at seeing so many soldiers put their heads together! ... I bequeath the shame of my death to the royal family of England...
...Whether this will mean anything to you or not lies with your courage. You who are not of the Cercle face the tortures of all unlingual Americans. Fortified in a dinner jacket, and with your Petite Larousse safely tucked in your bureau drawer, venture out some night this week, brave the vasty spaces of the Opera House, and realize that while a French reading exam teaches one no French, there are interpreters who can speak with their hands...
...Egyptians, as their ancient reliefs attest, valued the brave and loyal, but somewhat obstinate dachshund.* Last week, near Semmering, famed Austrian winter sports centre, Printz, the pet dachshund of Count Bela Széchényi, upheld the tradition of his breed...
...Nickname given him because he led the exceptionally brave blackmen of the 10th U. S. Cavalry at Santiago...
...eared cap; and, like Wilhelm II, is writing his autobiography. Recently, as one autobiographer to another, Poultney Bigelow reviewed the onetime Kaiser's latest work,* wrote of him as follows: "It was William II's good fortune to know in his youth only pure women and clean, brave, loyal, highly educated men. . . . The mob howls at the Kaiser as our people did at the President of the late Confederate States [Jefferson Davis]. . . Each was charged with cowardice for seeking to make his escape. The same people would probably have said the same thing of Napoleon I, when...