Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gravely exalted host had watched the electoral votes of the nation pile up, up, up into the most colossal majority ever polled by a President-elect-444 for Hoover & Curtis to 87 for Smith &; Robinson. Now many of the same guests and a host deeply dejected but keeping a brave front, watched the slow pile-up of an electoral total even more colossal against Herbert Hoover. There was no mistaking the full significance of this landslide as one Republican State after another was set down in the Roosevelt column. Little Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont looked lonely, almost pathetic...
...story about a brave engineer...
Night after night in the Chi Psi fraternity house at Middlebury College, Vermont, a lank, black-haired youth used to sit at the piano, pounding out the lusty lament about the brave engineer's "farewell trip to the Promised Land." Since the piano-thumper's name was Jones, he was nicknamed "Casey." His first initials, C. S. for Charles Sherman, perpetuated the nickname from those days, 20 years ago, until he became an aviator. Then it stuck as the perfect name for a hard-bitten pilot. It helped make him a glamorous figure in the swashbuckling period...
Lehman v. Donovan. Declared Herbert Henry Lehman, Democratic nominee for Governor of New York: "I want to pay a personal tribute to the Wartime record of my distinguished opponent. Col. Donovan. He was a loyal, brave, upstanding soldier, a splendid regimental commander. I deeply and sincerely admire his war record." Rapped back ''Wild Bill" Donovan, Republican nominee: "What we need now is not some very fine and very amiable man. What we need is someone a little rougher and who is not so sweet and amiable. This is a tough time...
...fight lasted seven hours. Twenty times battling bobbies put on a truncheon charge. To defend the Houses of Parliament, to keep the mob from crossing the river, London's brave bobbies were obliged for the first time to rush motor cars up to Thames bridgeheads and park them close together as an impromptu barricade...