Word: valorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Murray Bartlett, president of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., holder of a U. S. Distinguished Service Cross for Y. M. C. A. War valor, a Protestant Episcopalian. Reason: Tolerance; "religion has nothing to do with presidential qualifications...
Crown of Clay. General Alvaro Obregon was twice invincible, in valor and in modesty. History does not record that he ever lost a major battle. So invincible was his modesty that during his term as President (1920-24) he would not occupy the Mexican "White House," a sumptuous palace, but resided nearby in his own small house. Such a man did well to refuse in his last will burial in the Mexican National Cemetery...
...Valor's a mousetrap...
Mouse Trap. The bizarre opinion that valor is a mouse trap was quaintly justified by the circumstances which caused Chang Tso-lin to withdraw from Peking last week, without fighting any final pitched engagement or making a theatrical "last stand." Circumstances...
...Field diamond late yesterday afternoon, exchanged lusty cheers, and dispersed homeward amid the plaudits of the on-looking through. All told it was one of the most rugged battles the Soldiers Field turf has seen in many a long day. CRIMSON and Lampoon rose in alternate waves of mighty valor; men went down to die for the glory of their teams, and others went down on top of them; hits, runs, errors were scattered with liberal hand by the gods through this the battle of their favored children, and yet as the fury of the storm faded into...