Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Gauguin's youngest son Pola gave a more authoritative and respectable version of his lone-wolf father's career. His narrative lacked Maugham's melodrama, also its moonshine, showed his absentee father as partly heroic, partly lupine, wholly credible. Born in Paris in the stormy year 1848, Paul Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin...
...this case Beverly Roberts departs from her customary Junior League Portrayals' and becomes the heroic young miss who runs a logging outfit somewhere up in "God's Country." George Brent, as the man in question, not only brings out the eternal feminine in her but frustrates her competitor when he tries to block up the river. The fact that the competitor is Mr. Brent's brother only makes his sacrifice for the woman he loves all the more noble...
Discernible also are the cook, two radio operators and the chief engineer, the rest of the crew remaining in the background as heroic but anonymous supernumeraries...
Both brothers lost their lives in the summer of 1935 in a heroic attempt to rescue their father who had been washed overboard from their ketch, "Hamrah," while 600 miles off the Atlantic Coast...
...novice spectators, a six-day bicycle race appears to be a heroic feat of endurance. To an experienced six-day cyclist, each six-day race is merely a sprint in the endless marathon of his profession. Riding in a dozen or more six-day races in quick succession every season obliges him to become permanently adjusted to living conditions that include ten picnics a day, sleeping four hours out of 24, mostly in 15-minute catnaps, living, in full view and earshot of the crowds that come to watch the race, in a shelter that looks like a flag-draped...