Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abandoned pumping station, for which he paid $10 rent a month. Last week Sculptor Lantz was afraid his rent was going to be raised, because he had just won the biggest commission ever awarded by the Treasury Department's Section of Painting & Sculpture -$45,600 for two heroic stone figures to be placed on the terrace of Washington's new "Apex" building, into which the Federal Trade Commission will move in May. Big and simple, Sculptor Lantz's designs, each of a gigantic work horse held in control by a powerful man, were adjudged the best...
...showed what happens when the legendary heroes of the Old West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever, but hard-up instead of heroic, dissatisfied, bewildered, trapped. Although they start shooting at the hint of an insult, they, too, eat dirt, have their human share of humiliations in the pursuit of women and wealth...
...Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," bold title of a play full of bold surprises and shocks, proves that its innovating poet and author in also a master of drama. The play in dramatic because it centers about a great problem seeking its solution in the career of a heroic figure. The problem in that of assertion of self as against self-effacing participation in a greater cause; of acting as against suffering...
...when mobs rule the city and thugs assault his sweetheart. John Hargedon, after a long career trapping and abandoning girls, is himself trapped into marriage by a shrewd wench who despises him, robs a house during the strike, shoots two gangsters after the same loot, and dies an ironically heroic death...
...lived up to his reputation in his first national championship tournament. Although Sam Snead did not win the tournament he came within a stroke of tying the U. S. open championship record with a phenomenal 283, missed the title only because Ralph Guldahl played one of the most heroic last rounds in the annals of golf-to break the record with...