Word: intrepidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never one to heed the conservative "get a horse" counsel of his less scientific companions, the intrepid Gold Coaster chose the director approach. Trial and error showed him where the weak spots were, and gravity did the rest. "Water's pretty warm for January," he concluded, as he filed his application for the local Polar Bear club...
Eleven Indians bit the dust Saturday morning--and their scalps have now taken their places with trophies of other wins in the glorious tradition of CRIMSON football history. The game? of course it was the rugged tussle on the Hanover Common Saturday morning when 11 intrepid representatives of the CRIMSON whopped an outclassed Daily Dartmouth squad, 23 to 2, before 103,000 rabid spectators...
Smarting over since his defeat on the Charles to the strokes of the 'Cliffe crewmen, the Harvard Male has been thirsting to assert his traditional superiority . . . in something. Yesterday an intrepid group of Bellboys shouldered the responsibility for vindicating College honor, and engaged a formidable aggregation of Amazonian field-hockeyers on the Browne and Nichols gridiron, with scattered support from Wellesley and some finishing school ringers...
...clock last Sunday afternoon, a band of intrepid adventurers gathered together to inaugurate a new period in the colorful history of jazz at Harvard A haphazard group of instrumentalists it is no doubt they were, with two clarinetists and one clarinet, a cornet, a trombone, a piano man and a suitcase expert. But they were united in their devotion to the principle that jazz sans arrangements, sans rehearsals, and in short sans everything but spirit, lung power, and a smattering of relative pitch is worth an hour or so every week. By the sixth chorus of the initial piece, "Darktown...
Claire Trevor, as art expert O'Brien's intrepid girl friend, shows up in a sensational new hairdo for each new scene, and is nice to look at. Herbert Marshall, who might, at any moment, turn out to be either a crook or a Scotland Yard investi gator, goes about his work with an air of bored relaxation. And if Mr. O'Brien appears to know nothing about art, he obviously knows what thriller addicts like...