Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Must two valiant nations continue throughout the ' centuries to rise up against each other periodically and must they develop a civilization that is doomed to be trampled upon by armies and crushed and saturated with blood? No. . . . Locarno has given people confidence. It makes it possible for mothers to gaze on their sons without feeling terror for the future. . . . Locarno is a germ that must be carefully tended, and not crushed by the heavy foot before it has time to grow. Such a crime must not be committed by the French foot...
Queen Elizabeth, slim, valiant helpmate of slim, valiant King Albert I of the Belgians, received last week a sprig of 19 roses, roses that smelled sweetly of balsam and musk, the gracious appreciation of a noble woman held in high esteem by His Holiness Pius XI, who was born Achille Ratti, a papal gift for her silver wedding anniversary. The roses were artificial and constituted the famed Golden Rose...
...quarrel between Poultney Bigelow, American author, and H. G. Wells, paradoxical British internationalist, waxes interesting. In Mr. Bigelow's recent book of reminiscences, he criticised the manners of Mr. Wells in no half-hearted way. Whereupon the British author administered through the press of his country the reproof valiant. Attached to his declaration was the thundering footnote, "American papers please copy...
...before proceeding along the coast to Vera Cruz, whence he marched inland. The discovery of great wealth in upland Mexico, and later in Peru, turned the attentions of the Spanish conquistadores from Yucatan, where little gold was to be had. The conquest of the hot lowlands, inhabited by the valiant Mayas, was long delayed. The Indians have never given up the struggle for independence and in the eastern part of the Yucatan peninsula, called Quintana Roo, they have retained a practical independence in several small states...
When he rose exulting in the air, propelled by the toe of the valiant Ropes, looking like the war-angle sounding the onset and hovering o'er the mingling fray, we little thought then, that today he would lie so low, surrounded by weep-ing "Sophs." Exult ye Freshmen, and clap your hands! The wise men who make big laws around a little table, have stretched out their arms to encircle you, and for this once at least, your eyes and noses are protected, you are shielded behind by the aegies of Minerva...