Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a, Mexican, standing before the National Palace, pot-valiant and patriotic, throated a lusty cheer. The bell, originally rung in 1810 by the priest Miguel Hidalgo at Dolores to summon Indians to the subsequently successful revolt against Spain, teetered without squeaking upon its ponderous and newly oiled axis, clanged sonorously...
...greatgrandmother." This fact, "a source of unending pride . . . has grown into a humble yet valiant desire to write of times in which, if he had been the arbiter of his own destiny, he would gladly have lived." For ten years he has been gathering the material, and "foot by foot the hallowed ground has been travelled" for an historical novel with the Anglo-French struggle in the 1750's for domination of Canada as its background. Here, at last, is that novel. Its titular figure is Peter Joel, border mystery-man, who dyed his doeskins black, sooted his face...
Lithuanian troops busied themselves last week in expelling across their border a detachment of Polish frontier guards who had wandered into Lithuania while celebrating with valiant potations the Pilsudski coup. (TIME, May 24 et seq., POLAND...
Naturally the Italian people have reason for fearing any and all attacks upon the Roman nose. If to be a Fascist one must be a true Roman, that Bergeracian appendage is essential. Premier and policeman, both must guard the nasal bridge, valiant as Horatius, and twice as undemocratic. For democracy, if it does not predicate complete denasalization, at least suggests a diminution of nasal swank. The affair, indeed, is after all, quite conversational...
...first, of $50 being given to Herbert Lombard Ellison '28, of Brighton for his redition of Rudyard Kipling's "Gunga Din." The second Boylston' "Speech at the Burial of John Brown." The third prize, also of $35 was given to James Randall Creel '27 for his selection "The Valiant," by Holworthy Hall and Robert Mr. Middlemas...