Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of all these handicaps, Coach Campbell made valiant efforts to whip his team into shape at yesterday's practice. Long signal drills and easy scrimmaging with the second Freshman team were the chief features of the practice...
...fact that it marks a line of duty from which individual churches cannot retreat with honor. But the symposium is not a program, it carries no seal of responsibility; it is, however, prophetic of the church, seeking a new creed for a new day, or at least a more valiant and effective application of creeds which...
Together with Christopher Morley and other valiant seamen, McFee has taken share in the Tusitala, a rechristened ship which will soon be given over to transporting those who wish to travel according to old sailing vessel methods...
...Action Française, Royalist journal, was assailed on all sides by irate Socialists when he took his seat in the Chamber. It was with difficulty that the ushers and saner deputies were able to prevent grievous bodily harm being done him. Despite Daudet's valiant efforts to fight the entire Chamber single-voiced, he was obliged to succumb to the superior yells from the Socialists. After a vote had been taken condemning the action of the Royalists, he walked out of the Chamber amid hoots. The attitude of the Govern-ment was that it would not tolerate attacks...
...stage version, for the rival is made most unattractive as a man, and after the ghost of the dead husband is laid, the play degenerates into farce. Miss Nudsen is somewhat too colorless for so emotional a part; she gives it with little strength. Mr. Gilbert makes a valiant effort with the doctor's part, and puts into the play much that it lacked in the writing of it. Especially in the earlier scenes of straight comedy is he good; when it came to the ending, his skill was wasted in broad comic effects...