Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of this communication is not to urge the "brave young men of our great Universities to enter politics", it is to point out the silliness of airing socialistic reforms or conservative doctrines in a comfortable room with pleasant people by man who, when he has graduated, will say. "I'll take this good job that is offered me now--and go into politics later--sometime--perhaps...
Whatever the result, the sun still shines brightly about the Welshman's head. The Coalition seems finally doomed. What of that? If not returned at the head of a party, Mr. Lloyd George will take his much-needed rest in Opposition, and his successor will be a brave man to try disentangling the knot under such a gaze...
...hundred and twenty-one years come Wednesday, that the Captain set off for Wapping. The Marshal of the Admiralty went ahead in his carriage; the Deputy Marshal carried the Silver Oar; the two City Marshals would not have been out of the picture for any money. It was a brave company, and not the least brave was Captain William Kidd, looking with a calm, unflinching eye on the vulgar herd waiting for the final scene in his romantic career. He was not the first of his profession to go to Execution Dock, which, as Stow has reminded...
...Editors of the CRIMSON: Mr. MacVeagh's Letter is bitter; but it is sincere and brave, and it merits something of discussion. I think we are all shocked at the lurid sensationalism of the past few days; we all believe that the persons who fed the gaping maws of the press have committed the act unforgivable. Yet, is it not unfair to ascribe to the Jewish students alone, an account obviously concocted from various sources, colored by the feverish imagination of burrowing reporters, and from its very nature, purporting to sympathize with the "suppressed minority" whose suffering is "exposed...
...felts, though the day be 90 in the shade, seems a de trop us that full dress suit at the informal dinner which tortures the gentleman in the etiquette advertisements. Here in Cambridge disregard for conventional toggery is reputed more conventional that convention itself. And some brave straws have already appeared; in fact, "the President has pointed the way with his Panama". It is a reasonable prophecy that only a few of the old felt hats will be seen on the street today--these curious, shapeless things that so touched the heart of the Editor of the Alumni Bulletin. Those...