Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This period has seen no painter with such a brave conceit. Some critics have thought that John Singer Sargent might have had it, but evidently he did not, for his paintings have begun to decay. Not noticeablyless. Sargent had a way of using bitumen and laying thin pigments on heavier ones; he painted as carelessly as if his masterpieces were no more than the facile originals for magazine covers or cigaret advertisements...
...survived by his wife, who nursed him throughout his malady, and by a married daughter. He was a brave man, an honest man, and understanding and sympathetic man, and a man of the highest intellectual endowments. Self forgetful always, often absorbed and silent, a hard, steady thinker, he became, on appropriate occasion, the most vivacious and sparkling of companions. Sternness in him was wedded to geniality. Seldom, perhaps, has so uncompromising a moral and scholarly standard, a veracity so inflexible, been joined to such gentle considerateness for one's fellowmen...
...scorner of the conventional mediocrities of mankind. When he was shot down at last, he was found wearing a flaming suit of silk pajamas under his aviator's uniform. Said mourners: "His pajamas and his famous blood-red battle plane were typical of the man-a flaunting, brave, exuberant war eagle. His like has not often been seen...
...Court of Inquiry which was held. Sampson was too ill to appear. But Schley, who was an aggressive type of man, was on hand, quick of eye and springy of step, hearty and good natured in spite of being a grizzled veteran past 60. He was personally attractive, impulsive, brave and sure of himself. The Court found him guilty of "vacillation, dilatoriness and lack of enterprise," and declared that he had been slow in obeying orders, remiss in securing naval intelligence, had blundered tactically in the battle of Santiago, and had various minor faults. The Court however recommended no action...
...ever the brave lift of a spirit that struck strongest in the face of defeat .... a will that brooked no curbing...