Word: intrepidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...street; while the two stood in talk, the stolen lady screamed from a neighboring house. Sard entered; soon he and Sagrado were swapping punches. Sard's right for once failed him ; so did his left. Sagrado, who had the muscle of a baboon, was about to sacrifice the intrepid sailor at the very shrine of his unswerving attachment when? the door burst down, in pelted Brother Kingsborough with reinforcements, Sagrado was led off in chains ; and the happy couple whose separation had given rise to so much narrative on the part of Mr. Masefield were?for the time being?united...
...said that the historical romances of Alexandre Dumas are in more demand at the Public Library than any other fiction. Doubtless the books most read are "The Three Musketeers," "Twenty Years After" and "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," in which the intrepid d'Artagnan holds the front of the stage as a young blade who never refuses a passage at anms, as a mature fighting man whose wrist is steadier and whose judgement more sure, and as a veteran whose character has become nobler with his years and whose valor remains equal to any test. It must have been with...
...This is explained by the fact that the older poets, through the Elizabethans, knew the sea only well enough to fear it, regarding it as a crawling, treacherous enemy, as indeed it was, and looking upon sailors as rude, blasphemous, uncharitable dogs, as indeed they were. They were also intrepid fighters and stout explorers. These are the songs, as they might be sung by a binnacle light over a can of flip, of the exploits of those who sailed in galleon, lazaret and caravel?a tribute...
...fearing a collision, two planes-those of Lieuts. Smith and Wade-wheeled and turned back toward Scotland. One, the New Orleans of Lieut. Eric Nelson, kept on. Over 500 miles of icy and puckered water, through the confusing mist-banks, the New Orleans flew like a bodiless falcon, invisible, intrepid, swift. At first Lieut. Nelson feared that the course was lost Then he sighted the Billing sley, from which he took his direction, as she was steaming in the line of flight. He followed the same procedure when he sighted the Reid and the Raleigh...
...saying has it that there is very little difference between the genius and the fool. If this is so, and Dr. Laird's observations are accurate, the intrepid spirit who dares to undergo four gruelling years of college life is taking an impressive gamble with the gods of chance. When he emerges from the strain of intellectual competition, or as one critic would prefer, the pernicious influences of a vapid university atmosphere, he may find himself a second Shakespeare, a second Dante, a second Leonardo; of his family may discover to their horror that all he can remember...