Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...layers of sweaters against the high-altitude cold, and regular Spanish Army troops had advanced into the suburbs of Madrid over a terrain on which battling females of the Red Militia had abandoned vanity cases, high-heeled slippers and powder puffs. This proletarian resistance was brave but it was scarcely war. When a wave of advancing Moors were suddenly faced by Red machine guns which popped up out of a trench they simply flung themselves prostrate and waited calmly. The White artillery "bracketed" by dropping one shell behind and another in front of the Red trench, got the range...
...diary, but "in plain English," states Editor Roberts, "Mr. Wright had seduced Mary Bulkeley." The young couple came to live with the squire, disappeared, returned, left their daughter for him to raise. But by 1746 Fortunatus Wright was famed throughout Great Britain as a dazzling privateer, "the brave corsair" whose raids on French shipping had netted him 16 ships and prize money totaling ?400,000. The boldest of English pirates, Wright operated in the hostile Mediterranean with such success that the King of France offered a title to the man who captured him, dead or alive. Back on his farm...
...brighten things up. About 9 p. m. the Florists' Telegraph Association sent in a six-foot composition sunflower as tribute to his "Americanism." "Come on, Theo," cried he to Mrs. Landon, "let's get our picture took while we still have a chance." Theo Landon was brave, too. A big, red-white-&-blue "Landon Victory Cake" lay untouched on the sideboard. "Maybe," said she as the returns kept coming in, "just maybe we've waited too long to cut it. But however it turns out," she continued, eyeing her husband, "I'm proud...
...special Pullmans full of muscular young men rolled out of Oakland, Calif, three weeks ago to show the East once more how to play football. But though their pants were the boldest green of the season and their scarlet jerseys were blazoned with brave green harps, the "Galloping Gaels" of St. Mary's College showed the East little this year. They were squeezed out 7-to-6 by Jesuit Fordham fortnight ago, trounced 20-to-6 by Jesuit Marquette last week in Chicago. Meanwhile, back home in Oakland things were going even worse. Representing $819,000 worth of defaulted...
...Meantime brave assurances issued from the Schencks that their deal was still on, but reports of Scot Maxwell's resurgence became so hot that Joe Schenck dispatched Twentieth Century-Fox's President, Sidney R. Kent, to London to keep his ear to the ground, his hand on a transatlantic telephone. Fortnight ago, Mr. Kent was suddenly invited to Mr. Maxwell's office in Golden Square off London's Regent Street. If Twentieth Century-Fox would prefer it, said blunt Mr. Maxwell, he would be happy that they should retain their 49% interest in the Gaumont-British...