Word: intrepidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon, intrepid and impotent burbler of the invading nine, was seen during the greater part of yesterday afternoon twining himself into grotesque and inhuman knots on the front steps of the Lampoon building, accompanied by the faint cheers of the teeming masses indoors who were gradually preparing themselves for the fray...
...asked for a man bold enough to take the requisite drugs and, later, to have an artery of his thigh bled. The intrepid man upon whom the experiment was performed was J. B. S. Haldane...
...Lieutenant Wooster with his neck broken, Commander Davis with his face crushed-both lifeless in a gloomy pool of water and gasoline. Thoughtfully, they had turned off the ignition, so that the giant did not catch fire. To Noel Davis-Mormon, cowpuncher, high in his class at Annapolis, intrepid minelayer and minesweeper in the North Sea, Harvard law student, with a pretty wife and a little son, Noel Jr.; and To Stanton Hall Wooster-Connecticut Yankee, Yale student and Annapolis graduate, once lost in a wrecked plane in Panama jungles, one of the U. S. Navy's most skilled...
Senator William Henry King of Utah: "My son Paul is an intrepid flyer. Last week as he piloted his plane, a Department of Commerce type, over Boiling Field on his way to Dayton, Ohio, he decided to land. The right wing caught in the grass and spun the plane around; out of the wreckage they dug my son Paul, unhurt...
...Cadillac, General Motors' pride, had been named for Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who in the 18th Century established Detroit. He was King Louis XIV's Governor of Louisiana Territory, but the man who had explored and named that territory a few years before was the intrepid, swashbuckling Sieur de LaSalle. In his name were connotations of reverence, dash, finesse. Therefore the new General Motors car is called the LaSalle...