Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there was a tradition in Texas: "No law west of the Pecos." In the old days, brave and bad, the pistol alone was guardian of good manners. In slightly later times a judge, one Roy Bean, conducted a combined saloon and courthouse in which it was his habit to decide shooting cases in a few minutes so as not to interfere with the regular business of the court-white lightning. They are gone, those days. Last week another judge, one Mullican, travelled 150 miles to Langtry on the Rio Grande, there held court. Helped by 250 witnesses, scores...
Miss Beringer was the feeblest and most timid of the old ladies. In her loneliness, she caught at the brave cheerfulness of Mrs. Amorest for solace and protection. Years ago, Miss Beringer had had six months of perfect happiness. That was the period of her friendship with Jane, the greatest and loveliest thing in her life. All that remained to her of Jane now was a piece of red amber?a gift which she cherished above all else in the world...
Newton Victor. Another harness-horse owned by Miss Scott, which beat J. R. Thompson's mare, Clyde Iris, for the Coxe Prize. Miss Scott drove in this event, with a scarlet flower brave in the black lapel of her habit, as she drove once in the past when the Earl of Derby was watching. "There," said that old nobleman, "there?God bless my soul?goes the finest driver I have ever seen...
...records of the Pierian Sodality, written by many a brave secretary, show that "at a meeting held on the 6th of March, 1868, by a number of students of Harvard University, they unanimously agreed to institute a society for their mutual improvement in instrumental music, to be denominated Pierian Sodality. A few days later laws were composed, and within a month serenading had been begun. On March 6, 1809, the first anniversary was celebrated. After the election of officers the members adjourned to Mr. Morse's where they partook of a most excellent supper. After the meal a number...
...went. Cities, under the arrowy path of its going, dropped behind like milestones-Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington; then colored country again, woods and fields, the brave and opulent lands of proud Virginia. All day it flew south through the shining levels of the air, and south still after the sun had gone down and the moonlight poured on its silver sides, dimming the lights that pricked out along the gondolas. At dawn it passed Atlanta, turned west, crossed the Mississippi at Greenville. Cotton lands and wheat lands, sage lands and deltas. As the sun was sinking again, it reached Fort Worth...