Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first snowfall in Cambridge may mean that to the ordinary hazards attendant upon crossing Harvard Square is added the possibility of drowning, but those brave enough to venture out before its remains disappear have several interesting lectures to attract them today. Chief among them will be the one by Professor Murdock on "James Fennimore Cooper". Cooper is an author whose popularity is not today all that it has been, but he still has a following among those who appreciate adventure stories. The lecture will be at 10 o'clock in Harvard...
...getting home from Troy. Therefore, Homer proves him a hero of the sort that is resourceful when shipwrecked, patient when detained. But Erskine proves him a liar of the sort that is shrewd enough in pursuit of romantic adventures, and shrewder yet in making them appear less romantic than brave. Not shrewd enough however to deceive Penelope with his tale of trying for ten years to get home. "Trying, my dear man! Who kept you back?"-"Fate."-"What was her other name...
...action takes place during the time of the great Armada when hostile feeling against the Spaniards was at its highest pitch in England. To fit with this setting there is the beautiful and noble heroine the brawny, brave, and confident hero, and last but not least the urbanely smooth Spanish Count who enters the story by virtue of a shipwreck on English shores. This wily son of Spain abducts the beautiful heroine and carries her to his native land. Through all sorts of adversity she is followed by her faithful lover, and in the end, as may well be expected...
...their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...
...Grecian blonde once made tall trouble and men have never forgotten. Long before Christ they knew her as the fairest of all women, the one the Trojan Paris stole, for whom the Greeks fought ten long years. Brave warriors died for Helen. Brave poets since have spent their dearest words on her. She has been Menelaus' Helen, Paris' Helen; Homer's Helen, too, and the Helen of Herodotus, Euripides, of Kit Marlowe, Alexander Pope, Andrew Lang. Recently John Erskine, perspicacious professor at Columbia University, won fame with his Helen refurbished. Last week and for the first time...