Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these brotherhoods, and in a session with this sleuth last fortnight the 51 had confessed all, promised to disband. Solemnly, regretfully, the "grip" (private type of handshake) had been given a last time all around. A last time they had whispered their passwords and unguessable secrets. Then, like brave men, they had declared their fraternizing formally at an end and gone their ways in sorrow. They had thought the matter was closed but last week the school board met and voted their suspension...
...influence of the New York World, which he founded, unmistakably persists in the grand literary prizes which Joseph Pulitzer established. So this year the gold medal for "most distinguished and meritorious service rendered by an American newspaper" was awarded to a brave, obscure journal, which had dared in Georgia to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, the antievolutionists, the lynchers. That paper was the Columbus, Ga., Enquirer...
...Smithsonian Institution sought to aid archeological Americana by questioning old, feeble Indians possessed of knowledge of their race's ancient settlements. One Francisco Laus rode with Mr. Harrington into Lost Valley and showed him, among other sites, a spot where Indians once caught eagles by lowering a brave down the face of a cliff in a rabbit-net made of red milkweed fibre. Down the Canada de las Uvas, (little canon of the grapes) one Angel Cuilpe, aged 104, showed him traces of wigwam towns; in Palm Canyon, one Juanito Razon, over 100, guided to ancient water holes, painted...
...assembled to condole with a martyr. We did not hope to greet the martyr vindicated. Mr. Mencken has done a dreadful and a brave thing...
...laff at that) about Mister Guffblawin. He gets worse and worse. He said yesterday why don't you eat your lunch before coming to which joke ha, ha, I said we call it brekfast in the better circles which held him to no gain and I walked. And the braves are coming back soon, did you know it. Alma has a cousin which is on them, though I bet he don't know half the brave stuff she does. Have you ever here her talk to a cop. I said once Alma was your old man in the army...