Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leave to mention. I fear you are a bit too confident in your belief about the availability of the aeroplane. Theoretically union men are not supposed to carry pistols or blackjacks; such instruments are for the protection of--er--the public, and are reserved to Allan Pinkerton's brave boys. If things had worked according to schedule the time poor old Louis had the disagreement with his subjects, the Jacquerie would not have had arms. And I suppose the first Paleolithic genius who slung a rook with a twisted grass rope had no idea that the gentleman in the adjoining...
...Many believe that Japan is now free to reap the fruits of her power in the Far East. It is not true! That nation in the future daring to brave the storm of world opinion will surely come to grief. Condemnation at the hands of all mankind is what made Germany sick at heart; it is what will bring France to terms; and it will have its influence on Japan. Universal censure is sufficient to quell the proudest nation, and Japan will soon vacate Siberia and conform to world opinion...
...engineers are making a brave at tempt to hide their sorrow. They have even started search for a new song. But whatever they may produce, it will never have the inspiration of the old one. In years to come when memory has dimmed, and they chant hymns to Dame Nicotine instead of Lord Bacchus, they may, with the perpetual optimism of the human race, imagine that the substitute is "Just as good", that they have cheated the muse. But she will know better...
...German soldiery, erroneously attributed to the incomplete assimilation of too much sauerkraut, is now found to have resulted from these cowardly assaults. "How", the Germans ask, "can our stolid folk be expected to equal in thought-production the more active minds of our enemies?" If one of our brave boys thinks that his toe hurts him, how can he know that it is only the "wish" of someone far away, perhaps across the channel. The use of propaganda is denounced as immoral and inhuman...
During the Napoleonic wars, hardly any one in France ever spoke of Marshal Ney without calling him "the bravest of the brave." His gay reckless daring appealed to the people; they honored him with this epithet. Nowadays we do not speak of our generals in such terms. They fight by telephone, miles behind the line. We think of them, therefore, as resourceful, far-sighted, skilful, but as brave--almost never...