Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barney Slaney, six-foot-five and solid as stone, was a brave engineer but his wife was a bad w-m-n. When Barney discovered the facts he killed her and her lover, was sentenced to a convict camp for life. But he did not stay long. Told off to help bury yellow-fever victims in a nearby town, Barney made a graveyard break and got away. In his flight he met up with a lovely virgin, conveniently orphaned by the epidemic. Naturally they fell in love. In a Western mining town they married, soon became most popular members...
...tight-fitting khaki and an officer's hard cap. His Majesty faced for a few brave hours the homage of mongrel natives in Massawa (where 112° F is not uncommon in October). Finally, with beads of perspiration standing out on his mustache, Italy's King repaired with relief to the special train that was to carry him up to Eritrea's high, cool plateau...
Stubborn as King Canute, defiant as Joshua, brave as Horatius he stood there a true son of the-British bulldog. The Brighton Express roared down at him 50 m.p.h., came to a halt with great screaming of brakes. Out tumbled the engineer, pale beneath the grease on his face...
...Brave and British to the core is 19-year-old Mrs. Kenneth Pawley of Newchang on the Japanese South Manchuria Railway. Several weeks ago Chinese bandits kidnapped Mrs. Pawley (a bride of three months), her two dogs (an Irish setter and an Alsatian) and one Mr. Corkran who calls Mrs. Pawley "Tinko." Last week anxious friends received a grimy ransom note, demanding $100,000 mex. (about $30,000), failing which Mrs. Pawley's and Mr. Corkran's ears would be cut off. Appended was a postscript from Mrs. Pawley...
...Tinko [Mrs. Pawley] is wonderfully brave and cheery, but she can't stand this sort of thing forever. We've done nothing but eat and sleep for a week. We are filthy and bored stiff, but we're both fit and well treated...