Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addressed Mr. Coolidge thus through th?ir spokesman: "In behalf of the 15,000 colored Congregationalists of the United States, we greet you as a fellow-Congregationalist in whom we have full confidence. . . . "Particularly do we want to thank you for that great word you spoke at Omaha, the bravest word spoken by any Executive for three-score years. It sounds like Lincoln...
...bravest seiz'd the butter-plates...
Died. Cornelius Cole, 102, oldest ex-U. S. Senator; in Los Angeles. He was a placer-miner in California in '49, knew well the bravest days of the Golden State?the stagecoach, the pony-express, the vigilantes. Lincoln's friend, he heard the Gettysburg address, was with the President on the day of his assassination. He was one of the twelve who organized the Central Pacific Railroad; the last of that stern company of senators who impeached President Andrew Johnson...
...Heaven, the Almighty, wishing to express appreciation of his apostle's conduct on earth, offered to grant any petition that he might make. St. James began by invoking the Divine blessing upon his beloved country and then entreated that Spain might always be known as possessing the bravest men, the loveliest women, the healthiest climate, the most fertile soil and, last, the most perfect government. " Stop," exclaimed the Almighty, " all your wishes shall be granted with the exception of the last. For were I to accord to you that one also, all my angels would leave heaven and take...
Pancho Villa of the Island of Panay in the Philippines became flyweight boxing champion of the world by knocking out Jimmy Wilde, Britisher, in New York (in the seventh round). Next day Wilde was spoken of in the public prints as " the bravest little man who ever held a ring title...