Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctoresse Pelletier, ardent feminist, created a sensation at the Faubourg Club in Paris by stating that women are as brave and as enduring as men and should be soldiers. Her suggestion was voted down with cries of: " Yes, we have no red trousers today...
...Italy has proved during four years that she intends to fulfill loyally the Treaty of Rapallo; she has not even feared to fire upon the brave and patriotic followers of d'Annunzio and to shed the blood of her own sons. Even more, Italy has willingly complied with conditions that were profoundly distasteful to the national feeling, the election of Zanella and the evacuation of Sussak and of the third Dalmatian zone...
...Ring. In the center of the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, Champion Dempsey forcibly induced " Bull" Firpo to lie immobile and unconscious for ten consecutive seconds. When the ten seconds were up, Dempsey walked over to Firpo, picked him up, told him he was a brave fellow...
...with the national play at Germantown were matches in the National Veterans' Lawn Tennis Championship. For the third year in succession, Dr. Philip B. Hawk, hardy Philadelphian, was winner. The other veteran finalist was Captain A. J. Gore, a Washingtonian of wide girth, who tired fast after a brave start. Score...
...will not know what the words are, but one does not need to know a language to know the meaning when a man scowls and shouts and shakes his fist. I will smile and wonder to myself if these brave men who wish me ill in so loud a voice would like to come up in the ring with me and call me names. I will wonder if perhaps six or even twelve of them at once would like to come into the ring with me and call me bad names...