Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Osages were still known as "the great Osages"-not only because of their height (most of them six feet or over) but because of their reputation as one of the bravest tribes of Plains Indians. When they left their old hunting grounds in Kansas for the Indian Territory, buffaloes were getting so scarce that government allowances and rations were welcome, and even their wild mourning dances did not always end in a war party, hungry for scalps. Between the noble savagery of the Osages and the greed of half-civilized whites nibbling at the Reservation's borders, Major Miles...
Brüning. Meanwhile a new Reichstag election (which will cost the impoverished Government about $5,000,000) was only a week off and the Republic's bravest champion, pale ascetic former Chancellor Bruning, was vigorously campaigning, attracting the most enthusiastic crowds he has had in years wherever he spoke. Left-wing Socialists, his adversaries for years, were ready to vote for him to stop either von Papen or Hitler. Most observers rated his chances slim for next week, but by no means out of the German political picture...
...FIND SEMENOFF. . . ." But Nikolai Semenoff had already spent a night at the Temperance House in Niagara Falls, walked out next morning, doffed hat, top coat and stick, laid them neatly on the shore. Helpless witnesses saw him plunge off Table Rock, go over the brink in his last and bravest pirouette...
...Bravest that day were a group of little flat-faced Japanese nurses. Before the echo of the explosion died down they fought their way through the terrified crowd to the wreck of the reviewing stand, ripped the uniforms of the injured officers into strips to make bandages, saved Minister Shigemitsu's life with tourniquets on both thighs...
...Hohenzollerns Prussia was a rugged country and fair to see. Fogs blew up off the Baltic and settle down over the hills. Great baronial estates sprawled over the land. Fat cattle dwelt in the fields, and tall grass swayed in the winds. There lived in this territory the proudest, bravest, most solid people the world had seen, the Prussian Junkers. They had rallied to the support of the Great Elector, they had fought for Frederick in the dreary days of Zorndorf. They had built the Prussian nation...