Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blame should not be laid upon Harvard men for pleading guilty to the indictments of the Vassar Miscellany, quoted elsewhere in these columns. Coming from an institution so much less physical, it is not at all surprising that the sudden metamorphosis to Poughkeepsie life should daunt all but the boldest or best conditioned of males...
...have done, not merely told. A recent claim is that defects in the U. S. Air Mail service which had caused the deaths of numerous pilots were remedied after a Scripps reporter had investigated and his chiefs had acted. Last week Scripps-Howard set out upon a bold, bolder, boldest crusade: trying to persuade the U. S. to pay the Civil War Debt to British investor: which was incurred and then repudiated by eight onetime Confederate States...
...Boldest of the witnesses was a small, bent, greying woman. Like a Fury she raged at Herr Badchis, "You ordered my daughter's arrest and thought you could make her talk. When she kept quiet your men strapped her into a chair, an electric chair...
...This is the best punch I've ever drunk." When Prince Potenziani expressed his pleasure at entertaining "the chief magistrate of the greatest city in the world, of that fabulous city of incomparable development in which Anglo-Saxon energy with untiring activity has translated into actual fact the boldest conceptions of human thought ..." Mayor replied, "Prince, if you said what I think you said, I'm grateful." Also the Mayor remarked (as he had done at Venice the week previous) : "They call me the late mayor of New York but you don't notice me showing...
...below, before God above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious. She produces an Ibsen play without a stage director. Autumn Fire, an Irish play and a fine one, is built around the character of a hale, old country gentleman, boldest horseman, keenest hunter, most ardent lover in the county. A too spirited mare breaks the stalwart frame. His own son, his own young bride break the vigorous spirit. These two move with Nature. They love, while the old dictator groans on his death bed, stubbornly believing himself invincible against...