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...James. The Robin Hood of America ". . . there was no ultimate evil and no ultimate good that the dashing highwayman did not accomplish." Behind the fantastic and villainous hero of the yellow backs, Mr. Dibble finds a not unlovable young man, more sinned against than sinning, indomitable, humorous, fighting a dauntless fight against inconceivable odds, downed in the end only by treachery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strenuous Americans | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

Under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field, a special service squadron of the Royal Navy composed of the battle cruisers Hood and Repulse and the light cruisers Delhi, Dauntless, Dragon and Danae, sailed from Plymouth for a trip around the world that is to last 307 days. The object of the trip was said to be to show the ships in some of the chief ports of the Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Naval Cruise | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...room, and no need. The increasing number of fume-emitting motors, according to public health officials, has made the Americans a race of blood-poisoned nervous wrecks. The nation is already half saturated with cars, and last month more were made than in any previous month. What dauntless courage is fostered in Detroit to assert that every man, woman, child, and college student will throw away their old cars for a new Ford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY MOTORS | 5/10/1923 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Albert BUSHNELL Hart ., | Title: Anniversary Advocate Admirable | 5/12/1916 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Defeated Yale News, 10-9 | 5/19/1913 | See Source »

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