Word: braved
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shouts of "graft," "corruption" and "waste" drown out the voices of those few brave men, notably Mr. Babson, who ask us to be optimistic toward the business outlook. Every day reveals more scandals involving both government officials and labor leaders as well as business men, from the building trades in New York City to the Emergency Fleet Corporation transactions which cover the entire country. Labor cries out against unemployment as a result of a capitalistic plot, while capital begs for some stabilization in the labor situation. To glance at a front page of a newspaper one would think that...
...love brave life and young romance...
...speech preceding his reading of his war-poems, gave this as a part of a message which he "had come to America to deliver to the men who may take part in future wars, and their wives. I do not wish to take away from the glory of those brave men who fought in the war," he said; "it is only because the little acts of kidness which the performed for one another in the midst of that Hell,--when they showed their true mettle,--accentuates its horrors, that...
...villain, we should have the heroine gazing out a painted window from which she would turn now and then to gasp to us, "There he goes, there he goes, My God, My God, over a ditch, he's getting nearer, he's getting nearer ... ah.. my brave boy, he's got him, thank...
...novel breaks off where Mr. Drinkwater's play commences. The poet has given us Lincoln the statesman, Lincoln the emancipator, Lincoln the man; the novelist presents Lincoln the youth, the frontiersman, the lover. Nothing could be more fitting. In no other way could our pioneer days with their brave spirit of young adventure be better portrayed than through the magic of Romance. And in no way more impressively than by the solemn procession of Tragedy could the dramatic rise and terrible climax of Abraham Lincoln's life be set forth...