Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brave John Umbles, Negro, one-time personal orderly to General John Joseph Pershing, helped save five people from drowning last summer. Later mean Mr. Umbles murdered his wife and his sister-in-law. Should Mr. Umbles be hanged by the neck? "Yes," said the Alabama jury which convicted him of his second murder. "No," said the Alabama Board of Pardons, which last week recommended that his death sentence be changed to life imprisonment...
...dramatic scene which resulted in a Danish Princess eventually becoming the Empress Marie. She, a blooming girl, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia (died 1865) had experienced for each other an undoubted and romantic mutual infatuation. Before they could be married he was stricken with paralysis. Brave, devoted, he called his fiancee and his brother Alexander to his deathbed and swore them to wed each other. The gigantic Grand Duke Alexander (later Tsar Alexander III) was as strong as a bear, as slow as an ox and one of the most obstinately loyal of men. He married...
...wept with loneliness, refused luxury in Milan, saying, "He may need my services again." Opportunism. The past week produced loud Episcopal dissent from the Roman Catholic satisfaction over its annulment of the marriage of the Duke of Marlborough to Consuelo Vanderbilt (TIME, Nov. 22). Up spoke first the brave Dr. Arthur Kinsolving (Episcopalian) of Baltimore, onetime rector in the New York Diocese where the Duke was wedded. "That girl was a happy and radiant bride when she went to the altar," said he, referring to the recent testimony of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Consuelo's mother, that...
...slew God." This was the man who "typified the vigorous logic that wrecked the universe" for very sympathetic Author Bradford. The significance and explanation are: 1) that Darwin, saintliest of men, though he may have been the critical instrument and though he saw whither his brave thought tended, was yet no more responsible personally for the catastrophe than was many another honest thinker just before him-the German metaphysicians, Herbert Spencer, Poet Goethe, Poet Emerson; 2) that those for whom God is a necessity, as He was not for Darwin, will recreate...
...When we were flying over the polar regions in the Norge, I had this fact of progress deeply impressed upon me. I had but to regard the bleak wastes of snow and ice below me to visualize the unfortunate explorers of the past. Brave men had wasted their lives in crawling toward the Pole over the ice and snow and frozen drifts of this Arctic area which we were flying over in comfort at ten times their best speed! When I considered these explorers with their dogs and sleds and years of wasted effort, I felt almost guilty because...