Word: dauntless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Passing water of the cool stream, Coming from afar," and leaves a faint impression of a passion for which the real Iris would be no solace. Augustus Lord's "By Autumn Seas" is a manly utterance on the old theme of world desolation and the comfort of "Love's dauntless cheer." Conrad Aiken has solzed perforce upon the poetry of the unpoetic in his "Vaudeville." He loves the verse of contrast, the skipping danseuse edging back and forth across the stage, hopelessly beloved by the violinist; and the shadowy silent lady, in spirit skipping after him. Somehow you see them...
With bands playing, pennanis waving, people cheering, the second of the annual baseball contests between the CRIMSON and the Yale News finished in a whirl of dust on Saturday. In the ninth the dauntless sons of the CRIMSON snatched themselves from defeat by a two-run batting rally, and in the eleventh pushed themselves to the pedestal of victory by pounding in four more tallies, a lead which the News fought vainly to out down. The final score, 10 to 9. tells the story. The CRIMSON had only one regret and that was in taking the game from hosts...
...betwixt a start and mild amusement, the native boldness with which you have suggested a *frappe with our hither to unbeaten septette of picked icemen. It is not so much the mild effrontery try and subtle brazenness of this offer which has caused our cynicism, as the air of dauntless bravado with which a spirited journal can afford to ignore a succession of ignoble crushing and yet rise once more, weak and giddy, only to be pushed once more between the ropes...
...dauntless Pilgrim turned to thee...
...born in New York, on January 11, 1842, of devout and independent parentage. Throughout life his studies were much disturbed by ill health, to which his dauntless spirit refused to bow. But a somewhat irregular education suited well a nature which was always fretted by routine and profited by whatever was unusual, diverse, and expressive of individual character. In his youth he attended a Lycee in France and afterwards the University of Geneva, there gaining an unusual command of French. His German be acquired a few years later at the University of Berlin...