Word: heartedness
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Citation: "A native son of the land of the Reformation, and a 20th century example of what he calls the 'Protestant principle' . . . The product of a Lutheran parsonage, he has served his fellow men on the battlefield, in the pulpit, and in the lecture halls . . . He is at...
In the troubled, filibuster-studded history of Central America, many a rusty rifle and Gatling gun has been ferried ashore through a moonlit surf from a ghostly schooner with no greater consequences than to give a dictator a mild scare or O. Henry an idea for a light-hearted story...
Giuseppe Sarto died at the age of 79 in August 1914, broken-hearted over the World War, which had just begun. This week, after a "process" lasting only 31 years, Giuseppe Sarto becomes the 4,394th known saint in the Roman Catholic calendar, the first Pope in 242 years to...
The contrast that makes Dienbienphu shine so brightly begins not many miles away, where a reconnaissance force-which could have been built up into a relief column by air drops-was crawling from Laos in a quarter-hearted pretense at rescue. The contrast sharpens at Hanoi, where General Navarre held...
The cast is deservedly well known, mostly playing roles that have since become types for them. Barry Fitzgerald signed on board as a comic Irish cook, and Thomas Mitchell as a gruff Irish bully-with-golden-heart. In the company of such genuine specimens Ward Bond changes nationality, if not...