Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Tarkington attempts to prove that courage is simply knowing that you are safe. When the coward poet learned to shoot, he became brave...
...Yolando, my film now in the making, was thrown from a castle window into a moat. His hands caught in his flowing sleeves, he could not swim, he struggled, he was sinking. Instantly I threw him my scarf, but he could not grasp it. He was saved by a brave policeman...
Despite the startling example the Frenchman displayed of what courage can accomplish with poor fighting equipment (oldtimers called it as brave a fight as ever boxer fought), 30,000 Americans jammed in the New York Polo Grounds booed. It was probably the worst example of collective unsportsman-ship this country has exhibited at an international sporting event. The answer is that Dundee is a New York boy, and New York wanted him to win. It is simply the answer - there is no justification...
Paris bristled with anger when the flash of the fight arrived. When details ticked in over the cables anger changed to pride. The press presented Eugene Criqui with three new titles to replace the one he lost: Criqui the Brave, True Frenchman, Cockerel Criqui...
...novel. And the emphasis is bad. Education for the mere purpose of propping up a nation is apt to be a very curious kind of education. Spanish books of history speak thus of our war with Spain: " After battles on land and sea and many heroic deeds by our brave soldiers and sailors, Spain agreed to peace terms which obliged the North Americans to pay us twenty million dollars of their money." True-but incomplete...