Word: valour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...massacres, as the result of which countries as large as England or France changed hands to and fro; a war of flags on the map, of picket lines, of cavalry screens advancing or receding by hundreds of miles without solid cause or durable consequence; a war with little valour and no mercy." The Significance. In the preface to his ebullient history Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill insists that "all the opinions expressed are purely personal and commit no one but myself." Far from expecting tact in the pronouncements of his public men, the Englishman relishes spirited aspersions hurled from high...
Orators caught up the phrase. From the World's Fair, the stage, current literature, the mouths of suffragettes, Author Beer sweeps together damaging evidence of the rise of the U. S. "Titaness," who now "drifts toward middle age without valour, charm or honor," after inventing "cheap cruelty and low social pressures...
...Oyster Bay, Mr. George laid a wreath upon the grave of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. Attached to his floral tribute was a card upon which Mr. George had written: " To the memory of an attractive and powerful personality, who fought the good fight with radiant valour...