Word: haled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courage before detractors 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...
...largest contributor was Edward S. Harkness of Manhattan, Director of the New York Central; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and many another railroad, son of the late famed oil magnate Stephen V. Harkness. Mr. Harkness gave $7,500 and loaned $2,500. His sister-in-law, Edith Hale Harkness, recorded her opinion with a check for $1,000. Other contributors: Irenee du Pont of Wilmington, Del., $5,000; Pierre S. du Pont, $5,000; Arthur C. James, Manhattan and Newport financier and yachtsman, $2,500; Richard T. Crane, Chicago foundry potentate...
...William Hale Thompson the horn-blowing mayor, and Fred Lundin, the silent man with the black glasses. The only member of the Lorimer- Thompson-Lundin gang left in power is Lennington Small, Governor of Illinois...
...year-old captain in the Revolutionary Army waited to be hanged as a spy by the British. With the rope around his neck, he said quietly: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." The life was that of Nathan Hale, martyr, hero...
...There is no finer record of high character and patriotic devotion, of unselfish service and of a spirit unquenched and majestic in death than that of Nathan Hale. . . . The hero's story should be taught to every child in our schools...