Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor: I was greatly surprised to see myself the hero of a preposterous story, published by the English and American press. I am just a modest school teacher and a World War Veteran. For my record on the battle fields I was distinguished with the order of Michael the Brave...
...educate myself all over again. My brave little wife essayed to teach me, and she would press my finger down on the typewriter keys, and spell the word 'cat.' I could not mentally visualize what a cat was, though the name was familiar. I began to lose the confusing diplopia. ... As I saw other signs of improvement in my co-ordinate movements, I began to have hope. In about 16 months after the onset, mental confusion had almost disappeared as had dizziness; coordination of the arm and hand are about normal, although my writing is yet a little...
...seats from my car, made a bed for her in the shadow of her Ford, dumbly helped her as best I could. As she met her fate upon that parched and mournful road-blanched, haggard, disheveled and robbed of all beauty, biting her hands and gasping in torment, but brave as she moaned and whispered a pitiful challenge: "I won't die! I won't die! Oh, let me have my baby!"-all strength within me fled and I wept from helplessness and pity. Chilled by the memory of that scene of dust and anguish and a woman...
Your article states that Lindbergh was the first civilian authorized to receive one. But Dr. Mary Walker, whether authorized or not for "service rendered during the War," received hers in January 1866. And as she was man enough to brave the taunts and jeers of Sherman's men by wearing pants, I judge that she earned...
...South Central States marked an-other slump. Probable worst was Devil's Swamp by Oklahoma's Edith Mahier. Kentucky's Frank W. Long painted Singer Jack Niles with his dulcinet. There were plenty of portraits of pretty white women and brave white gentlemen...