Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voting for Herbert Hoover, friend of the people and hope of the dry cause, or for the other man, with alcoholized brain, who can't keep sober no matter how he tries. . . . Do you want this to be a land of the free and a home of the brave, or a land of the spree and the home of the knave...
...Morris, 24, direct descendant of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of Dave Hennen Morris, Manhattan barrister & corporation official; by suicide; in Manhattan. Earlier in the same evening Son Morris had heard Tannhaüser at the Metropolitan, had written in his diary: "Tannhaüser wasn't brave enough to stick it out, but I have the courage to do it." It was recalled that 48 years ago, in Hanover, Germany, 16-year-old Francis Morris, uncle of Noel Morris, shot himself after hearing the opera Traviata...
...campaign progresses it has become increasingly apparent that the Re publican party at this time is the party of hypocrisy and the Democratic party, the party of progress. I consider that Mr. Hoover is honest, but Governor Smith is both honest and brave...
Starting at the Union at 6.30 o'clock the procession led by in band went through the Yard gathering adherents and then passing through Harvard Sqsuare added to its numbers all those in the Freshman Halls and Business School who were violent enough in their partisanship to brave the terrors of. Boston on a night such as last night truned...
...last week's Leper Mission meeting Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic Laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service, was brave enough to be pessimistic about reported cures of leprosy. He was for long director of the Leprosy Research Station at Molokai. As others, he injected chaulmoogra oil into the veins of lepers. The oil caused the lepers terrific pain. Often they fought against its use. Yet it seemed to stop the rodent, rotting, eating course of the disease. Chaulmoogra oil and its esters are the only medicines doctors know to treat leprosy...