Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the Age of Romanticism. And, gentle readers, please know the Vagabond is losing no time. In matters of love one must strike while the heart is warm. Already the Vagabond has found the sleeping princess--and a beautiful one, too! Already--valiant fellow! --he has slain the fire-eyed dragon. Already--oh clever one! --he has cut a piece from her priceless veil. Already--with his wand--he has awakened her from her magic sleep; already seated her on her golden throne. And things thus far are going well. Already he has approached her with these sweet words...
Never will Poles forget that their walrus-mustached, profane and eccentric Josef Pilsudski, who was also greathearted, valiant and dearly beloved, turned back the Soviet Armies from Warsaw with his Legions when all seemed lost and set Poland free, then made her Fascist and Europe's first bulwark against Communism...
...some of the troops advanced to battle. On Hill 300 a regular sergeant from the First Division captured a major and four lieutenants quietly studying maps. Most serious fighting took place when a company of Vermont boys ambushed a company of regulars and fired point blank into them. A valiant Vermonter went to port arms and demanded, according to the rules of sham battle, that a regular in an exposed position surrender. The regular made a pass with his bayonet and several rude remarks. The Vermonter got a nasty gash under the eye. Thereupon the Vermonters clubbed two regulars unconscious...
...against Southern Methodists. Said Bishop Mouzon: "We intend to give the Negroes more than they ever had before." It was agreed that white conferences with Negro members (i.e. in the North) could keep them. Behind closed doors Negro Bishop Robert E. Jones (Northern Methodist) of New Orleans made a valiant attempt to make an issue of Equal Rights. Negro President Willis J. King of Gammon Theological Seminary, who was reported to have been promised a bishopric, said nothing. Finally, in public, everyone sighed with relief when Bishop Jones arose, said that the segregation plan was acceptable to his people...
...bobbed the Republic of Panama's valiant little President Harmodio Arias with his personal check for the $2,500 bail. The chuckleheaded court constable refused it. President Arias sent out a detail of his own police to cash a check of Publisher Rounsevell's. They returned with 250 lb. in silver pesos, which the court constable was obliged to accept...