Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rainbow Trail. Tom Mix, just returned from a triumphant tour of Europe, thunders across one more stretch of prairie in The Rainbow Trail and indicates once more why he is one of the highest salaried actors in the world. He is brave, handsome, picturesque, honorable. He kills Indians, saves a noble white girl. The cowboy is about the only ancient chivalry we have. Mr. Mix is the cardinal cowboy...
...large centers of production" the women can do no more than utter a few feeble protests at what they consider wrong. The motion picture industry, is too strongly intrenched to yield, unless it encounters more serious opposition than eight women can muster. The International Council is making a brave gesture, but like most brave gestures, it is also quite futile...
Personally brave, reckless by nature, the War showed him up to the best advantage. At one time a Serbian detachment was menaced by a strong Austrian force. The Prince sprang to the head of the dispirited troops and called upon them to advance, but the men, not recognizing him, hesitated. The Prince turned, roared: "Men, I am George of Serbia. All those who are not afraid, follow me. Charge!" Defeat was changed into victory, but the Prince was seriously wounded...
...seeing great animals loose and hungry. Their circuses sprang up, like huge granite toadstools, in every shamble of the later Empire. After they had observed the antics of the Huns who invaded Italy in the Fifth Century, however, the Romans' appetite for watching wild beasts at play disappeared. The brave days of the circus ended. Only in the last 100 years did circusing come back to honor as a profession. Last week, with many blazing announcements, the Ringling-Barnum Circus came out of winter quarters, began its 1925 season with an engagement in Manhattan...
...doubt, the female-of the species will smile lightly at this brave attempt to refurbish the bristling glory of the cave man. The instinct of vanity in man is too ancient to be uprooted in one generation. Goadod by Colgate's hammering attacks on the hairy face, blinded by the glitter of three-minute safety razors, and drugged by the perfumery of multiplying shaving soap, the helpless male shaves...