Word: heroes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year (he completed 93 out of 167 passes), might become the disappointment of the finale. The Scoreboard read Carnegie Tech 7, Texas Christian 6- because little Davey had failed to kick the extra point. But in the second half, Quarterback O'Brien resumed his role of hero, led his team to another touchdown and kicked a last-quarter field goal that not only gave Texas Christian the game, 15-to-7, but stamped it as one of the greatest football teams of the decade...
...Cambridge, fellow students, hopelessly out-argued, called him Thomas Babble-tongue. In his sos he was a leading contributor to the powerful Edinburgh Review. At 30 he was an M. P., the most effective speaker in Parliament. Two years later he was the hero of the bitterly fought Reform Bill. At 33 he was a member of the supreme council of India. (Resigning five years later, Macaulay left behind a new Indian penal code and educational system, had saved ?30,000.) He became the most successful English essayist (sometimes so intoxicated with erudite digressions that he wound up lamely saying...
...right, Geer, pack up. You're coming with me," snapped the Dean of the University police from under his Tyrolean hat, the moment he arrived on the scene. "Don't you know you shouldn't be hero?" he added. According to earwitnesses, Geer immediately lost the beautiful English account which had graced his sales talk. "I didn't know that at all," he protested...
That the German people love uniforms, parades, military formations, and submit easily to authority is no secret. Führer Hitler's own hero is Frederick the Great. That admiration stems undoubtedly from Frederick's military prowess and autocratic rule rather than from Frederick's love of French culture and his hatred of Prussian boorishness. But unlike the polished Frederick, Führer Hitler, whose reading has always been very limited, invites few great minds to visit him, nor would Führer Hitler agree with Frederick's contention that he was "tired of ruling over slaves...
...Beachcomber (Paramount) contains the most unusual cinema hero of the year. Shiftless, insolent, concupiscent Ginger Ted (Charles Laughton) makes himself a nuisance to the kindhearted controleur of the tropical Dutch island where he lives in a disreputable beach shack. He also takes pleasure in insulting a hard-working British female missionary (Elsa Lanchester*) who tries to save his soul...