Word: dauntlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mute forefingers pointed. General Fragoso with two of his staff crossed the library, entered the President's office, gently closed the door. Minute later the voice of dauntless old Washington (named for George Washington) Luis was heard through the panel: "The least thing I value is my life-I WILL NOT SURRENDER! Leave this room...
...forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage. . . . Through the throng just then there thundered, Than upon his tawny steed. Here the crowd went wild with clamor, dauntless courage met their need; Cameleer charging onward, urged his camel to high speed. Elephant raging, saw his coming, cowed, careened and fled in haste, Trumpeted loudly, sought the river, riven ears weren't to his taste, Floundered through the murky water, and was lost in jungle waste...
History will record Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd not only as a dauntless expedition executive, as the first man to fly over both Poles, but as a character exceeded in lines of newspaper space during 1928-30 only by the U. S. President. For nearly two years the New York Times has carried a story on the activities of the Byrd expedition every day. By arrangement, 47 U. S. newspapers have done likewise...
...since the days of Lord Randolph Churchill's dauntless little band which broke up in the '80s has England had such a blatant "fourth party" (see p. 23). Never before in the whole history of politics has a new party received at its inception such potent newspaper support as that lavished, last week, on what London wags called the "Beavermere Party...