Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauty--"her nostrils . . . a little painful," he wrote, "her mouth is bad and good, her Profile better than her full face . . . her hands bad-ish, her feet tolerable." He did not even love her for her guile: they had many a tiff over a ball-room brave, and he reproached her with being a minx, "calling people such names...
...brave stand for national economy taken by President Roosevelt in his address to the American Legion yesterday is but another illustration of his ability to maintain a courageous and definite policy in time of national crisis. Admitting the obligation of the government to care for veterans actually disabled in the war and their dependents, the president was admirably clear in his statement that "no person, because he were a uniform must therefore be placed in a special class of beneficiaries over and above other citizens...
...Herbert Bayard Swope,† chin pointed up, looked exactly like the youth that kept saying 'Excelsior' on his way through the Alpine village, only more earnest, fiery and brave...
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Rabid imperialist, Rhodes once sneered at British policy as "philanthropy-plus 5%." Sometimes called a coward, Rhodes quitted himself like a brave man when the Matabele ran amuck and were proving costly to subdue. Unarmed, with a few companions, Rhodes went among the Matabele warriors, persuaded the chiefs to air their grievances and lay down their arms. Only big mistake of Rhodes's career, which cost him the loyalty of many a South African, was the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, which it was hoped would finish President ("Oom Paul") Kruger and his Boers, bring the Transvaal into Rhodes...