Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, they gave their first concert, wearing their National costume ?white blouse, black tall boots, red and black cap with four corners, raked with three brave peacock feathers. Said Critic Deems Taylor: "A very ordinary provincial symphony orchestra, with an insufficient number of strings and wind sections that play neither well nor wholly in tune...
...satisfaction, however, of witnessing a splendid contest. So speedy, furious--and even--was the game that each gripping moment promised to bring the thrill of victory, and yet each gave way to another quite as stirring. To the wearers of the Crimson go the honorable laurels of a brave defeat; to the warriors in Blue the sincere congratulations which any true sportsman must extend to the victors of a hard-fought fray. Marking as it did Yale's tenth consecutive major sport victory over Harvard, the men of New Haven may well be proud of last night's achievement...
...caves and palaces and deserts-are naturally big medicine for the cinema. Betty Blythe, the slave girl, puts her heart into the thing, as well as her hips and shoulders. The picture is a pretty good imitation. Coming Through. Thomas Meighan is, as usual, quiet and strong, kindly and brave. He is the mine superintendent who averts the strike and hurls Wallace Beery (villain) off the scaffolding. Lila Lee is also implicated as his wife. As a careful copy of the usual Meighan formula, the film will no doubt prosper...
...rather fumbling and inadequate. . . . The audience, probably composed of the composer's relatives, greeted the piece with what seemed to us highly disproportionate cordiality." Critic Taylor's confreres were less rigorous in their estimate of the composition of Composer Taylor. They, in their writings next day, used brave words: "Rich" (The New York Times) ; "Vivid" (The New York Herald-Tribune) ; "Delicate" (The New York American) ; "Tender" (The New York Telegram-Evening Mail) ; "Attractive" (The New York Evening World...
There, they beheld anthologies in oils, signed by Fry. A tree from Watteau, a sash from Cezanne, a tilted corner from Guy Pene Du Bois?second-hand oddments tumbled from the artistic property-trunk that is Mr. Fry's memory. Brave among them was a portrait of Lytton Strachey. His beard was dank, red, hedged, jowl and cheek; clammy were his hands; unkissed, unblessed, looked this great author. Students, painters, gazed upon him, went away muttering about the Fire, the Frying...