Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five thousand men, bravest remnant of the old Imperial Guard, shouldered their rifles again and marched away. Tired little Haile Selassie, forgetting the raw burns on his arm, retired into his Palace for a final conference with his chieftains. The Government, it was plain, would have to move. Should it go southwest to Gore, near British Sudan...
Vigorously, if irrelevantly, he speaks of King David's fights, then lists his captains: Sammotli, the Harorite; Helez, the Pelonite; Hezro, the Carmelite; Colo, the Anthracite; Rudo, the Impolite; Booko, the Erudite; And he who gave the foe no rest, Though not the bravest or the best, Stingo, the Skeeterbite...
...title of bravest man in U. S. Education, Dr. Frederick Maurice Hunter of Denver was last week a prime contender. He had just consented to become Oregon's Chancellor of Higher Education, beginning Sept...
...autograph. This time secretive Greta Garbo vanished for good. In Buffalo, Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty was threatened with arrest by the local S. P. C. A. if he did not stop "prodding and beating" his circus lions. Said the S. P. C. A. agent: "Lions are the nicest and bravest animals in the world." Retorted Lion-Scarred Beatty: "He is perfectly welcome to come into the cage with me and pet the kittens if he thinks they are so tame...
...people realize that Bert Haines, for years coach of Freshman crews, received a medal for bravery in action in the Holy Land during the World War. Bert led a cavalry charge that General Allenby, in command of the forces that captured Jerusalem, described as "the bravest action...