Word: valores
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...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 a quick pulse beat that his admires learned that a statue is to be raised at Auch in Gascony to perpetuate the real as distinguished from the fictious d'Artagnan. It is naively said in the announcement of this important news...
...Mike are the heroes of many a story, but not of the story of the 1924 Tailteann Games. The mighty Oisin and warlike King Cuchullin would have mourned the passing of their country men's valor had they been on the green at Croke Park, Dublin, to see U. S. athletes romp off with the Irish games with 64½ points. Ireland was second with 43½ , Australia 16, South Africa 6, England 6, Canada 5, New Zealand 2, Scotland...
...that such a nation gets no help from anybody." Maximilian Harden, German editor, intractable enemy of the Hohen- zollerns: "The certainty that war has lost its last glowing charm of romantic chivalry or knighthood, that it has lost the manly nobility of a fight to be decided by personal valor, and has become an endless war of industrial masses of matter and physical and chemical devils' work...
Britain. "If the Labor Government had the courage and valor which are demanded of working-class leaders, it would seize the opportunity to conclude a treaty with Soviet Russia because such a treaty would result in remapping Europe...
...model of knightly chivalry for all the young squires of England, to be a duke or a marquis, or even a baronet, meant something. When the sword of the sovereign touched a blood-stained shoulder, all the world knew that the favored one had accomplished a mighty deed of valor, or that the army of King Philip had lost another eagle. The golden spur implied bravery, and honorable achievement...