Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince." That frail poetic tragedy, "Paola and Francesca", replete with pretty costumes and phrases such as "the stars in palpitating cosmic passion held" has Jane Cowl in the starring role and Walter Hampden is playing "Cyrano" once more up-town at his Sixty-second Street Theatre. Margaret Anglin does valiant work in making a drama of tragic married life, "Security" convincing and next week Ethel Barry-more will come to her theatre in "The Love Duel", highly praised in its out-of-town engagements. Meanwhile Mrs. Fiske has just opened a revival of that comedy of social climbing...
...derived at this time from the British Organization of Fascists. As secretary of these young, Conservative zealots she led them in numerous "Raids on Reds" during the British General Strike, and did valiant service in breaking up Communist mass meetings in Hyde Park...
There is inherent in the House Plan an idealism attractive to all those who are valiant for progress, and Mr. Broch's view of the case is influenced by it to a large degree. His view is that of the normal outside observer who sees in the pictures painted for publicity a social and mental readjustment which he believes is a crying need in the universities of the country. That Harvard has consented--after a happy accident--to be the guinea pig in the experiment is to her glory...
Harvard staged a valiant come-back as soon as the whistle opened the second period. A clever passing attack baffled the leaders for a time, and toward the end of the game the Army's margin was somewhat reduced...
Iselin was not playing his customary game. While he started off fairly well in the first game, he dropped the second with little resistance. In the third game, however, he made a valiant attempt to stave off defeat, the game being deuced before Strachen finally...