Word: braving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CAPTAIN ABBY AND CAPTAIN JOHN-.Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2.50). Mr. Coffin, who loves his native Maine, made this "story of a plain Yankee home that went to sea" out of "the bare bones of fine and brave and godly living." The bones: logs of the voyages of Maine Sea Captain John Pennell; three diaries minutely inscribed by his wife Abby; her letters to her mother. Compiler Coffin appropriately fleshes these bones in hearty, homey, dash-a-tear language...
...Indian, who said his name was George Washington Nopokum, had come to Cambridge to "watch my brethren wallop you white men." In violent and rum-inspired terms, the Hanover Brave claimed the right to stay in Stoughton according to the provisions of the gift of the bricks used to build the hall...
...alarmed Freshman coaxed and forced the red-skinned intruder out of his room and barred the door. But before leaving the building, the Brave war-whooped a threat that with reinforcements he would return to his lawful residence today...
...brave said he had to leave his squaw at Smith because of the Harvard parietal rules. "Heap fine women she is too, but holy-smoke lead me to Radcliffe...
Before last week's World Series many a baseball fan, particularly in Cincinnati, thought the Reds had a chance to beat the Yankees. For precedent they pointed to 1914. In that brave year the Boston Braves, depending almost entirely on two brilliant pitchers (just as the Reds did this year), trounced the walloping Philadelphia Athletics, rated-with their hundred-thousand-dollar infield-the greatest team in major-league history (just as the Yankees are today). Such wishful fans cited the fact that, out of 34 World Series, 13 had been nabbed with just two pitchers winning the necessary four...