Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manager has done heroic, work at Memorial. He has given excellent food and good service with the minimum use of equipment, often expediting the service by working, himself, in the kitchen. But 300 men will not support an out of date equipment, designed to serve 1,000 to 3,000. Despite a fine "esprit de corps" the Hall has failed. The reasons are under Memorial Hall in the form of a power plant, ice plant, electric laundry, a large bakery, a butcher-shop, numerous refrigerating rooms, an oversize range and roasting oven, numerous old-fash-loned steam jacketed ketties, sundry...
...epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...
...years of age, Mestrovic has nevertheless for years been as well known as any contemporary artist on the Continent. Oddly enough, his work has never before reached the U.S. Its arrival has caused no little talk, for Mestrovic is an individualist of power. His themes are highly dramatic?heroic figures, gaining in a sort of grim majesty what they lose in intimacy and, occasionally, in essential nobility. Mestrovic's life is interesting in connection with his art. Born of Croatian parents?farming peasants? as a boy he wandered the fields, tending sheep, carving in wood. The long hours alone with...
...Biography. For the first time, R. L. S. is observed without prejudice. And for the first time the facts appear at last to be accessible about this strange, heroic figure. Mr. Steuart does not slur over his defects. He sets down the facts accurately but sympathetically, substitutes for the idol a man. His estimate of Stevenson's work is careful and just. He sees him as a writer not of the first rank?a master of the English language, doing perfectly things of secondary significance. But whatever his merits as an artist, as a man he stands among the heroes...
...uncertain voices that themes be written in black ink. The artist in this case might have been a gentleman, suffering from a suppressed blue desire, taking steps to relieve the complex. Or Ben might have been a tradesman's menial sent shivering into the yard in a heroic attempt to collect a bill. He might even have been a frivolous friend, whose staggering foot-steps led to the locked door of the artist,--where Carnival had ceded to Social Ethics for the evening...