Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through choppy Mediterranean seas dashed the British battleships Warspite and Valiant, last week, steaming full speed ahead from the Empire naval base at Malta toward the Egyptian ports of Alexandria and Port Said. Beside the ponderous battleships, paced three swift cruisers, keen Empire dogs of war. Smoke belched. Spume flew. Meanwhile a good old fashioned ultimatum was being cabled by the potent Government of His Britannic Majesty to the puny Egyptian Cabinet of puppet King Fuad...
...action" thus cryptically threatened was understood to be the blockading by battleships Warspite and Valiant of the customs offices at Alexandria and Port Said, from which the Egyptian Government derives a major portion of its revenue. Faced with such a threat-to-pocket, Prime Minister Nahass Pasha yielded inevitably, but sought to save the face of Egypt by promising merely that action upon the Public Assemblies Bill would be "postponed." To this equivocal capitulation His Britannic Majesty's Government sternly replied that they "would again be obliged to intervene ... if ... the Public Assemblies Bill were to be revived...
...cannot feel as we do. . . . Since the beginning of time men with the best intentions have been writing laws for our good. Since the beginning of time brave and valiant women have been abolishing these same laws. . . ." ¶ Throughout the week Chief U. S. Delegate Charles Evans Hughes labored manfully in subcommittee to prevent the drafting into a code of Pan-American International Law of any clause which would tend to prevent the U. S. from intervening in Latin American countries...
...true lover of sport failed to get excited during the summer of 1925 when the newspapers were full of reports from the Mt. Everest Expedition which made two valiant attempts on the peak, and which lost two of its daring climbers, Mallory and Irvine. The world waited in breathless suspense for news of victory over the highest peak on the face of the earth: but instead came the news of defeat and death, the climax of the greatest known mountain expedition...
...RESOLVED FURTHER, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States, the President of the Senate of the United States, the Secretary of the Navy and to our most valiant and courageous protector and statesman, the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin...