Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brave is set in three feet of concrete to prevent his removal by any jovial funmakers. Except for his up raised right arm, he is carved from one solid piece of wood...
...most of their countrymen, loosed vociferous cheers as first one big man and then the other launched staggering blows. Piet rushed the fight. Erminio beat him back. On came Piet again, pummeling, fighting close. Erminio thumped him solidly. By the 20th round honors stood even. Then Erminio fell upon brave Piet in a final burst of violence, won the decision, retained his title. The crowd made known its pleasure...
When only the larger nations are left armed, public opinion will either force them to join their smaller brethren in a policy of disarmament, or will make them accept responsibility for future trouble. And the nation which will brave the scorn and contempt of a peacefully inclined world will indeed be an all powerful...
...Significance. To read this latest of Donn Byrne's books is to walk a quiet way by the sea in Ireland and among greening hills and over the wide ends of the earth, with a kindly, brave man whose talk is chiefly mellow reminiscence. Because he thinks of gone days and people that live no longer, he thinks simply. His telling is not confused with detail. Because he is kindly and brave, he tells wistfully and with honesty of emphasis, without false pity for dead glories nor false praise for ancient virtues. Being Irish and a mellow man, he tells...
...SAILOR'S GARLAND?An Anthology of Sea Poems, collected by John Masefield?Macmillan ($2.50). Here Mr. Masefield has gathered his favorite songs of the sea. No fainting nostalgic verses, whispering sotto voce of flying spindrift, cloudy sails and hushed lagoons are these, but salty ballads, roaring chanties, brave sea-tales. Though Chaucer, to whom Mr. Masefield owes much, John Donne and Sir Andrew Barton are well represented, most of the poems are comparatively modern. This is explained by the fact that the older poets, through the Elizabethans, knew the sea only well enough to fear it, regarding...