Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Minister to Addis Ababa, heroic Sir Sidney Barton, was in London last week on a "leave" from which His Excellency is most unlikely to return to Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...
...establishing a permanent white settlement there. Later the settlement of Wrangel Island became an important project in the grandiose Russian scheme to grow cabbages and potatoes in the brief Arctic summer, turn the frozen tundras into a truck farm. Loudest advocate of this scheme is Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, heroic explorer who has been put in charge of the whole Red scheme for developing the Arctic...
...gags which culminate in his impersonating a British officer, getting involved in a battle, impersonating a German officer, bringing a German regiment back to the U. S. lines. Good pantomime: Brown, convinced that he is to be shot, rehearsing the way he will smoke a last cigaret with heroic nonchalance...
...always the case with Cagney v. O'Brien, over the disputed favors of a lady. Only strictly Soviet contribution to this aged Hollywood situation is the prim Communist conclusion in which it is revealed that the girl is beyond the reach of both sailor and soldier, being the heroic wife of a heroic commissar. This curious asceticism need not mar a picture which has probably not been matched for photography since The Informer, has certainly not been equaled for military realism since Chapayev...
...heroic and extraordinary achievements in Arctic and Antarctic exploration 1925-26," President Roosevelt presented Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth with the National Geographic Society's 13th Hubbard Medal. Introduced at his lecture following the presentation as "a world discoverer who exemplifies the finest traditions of science, modesty, resource and valor," Explorer Ellsworth trumpeted: "The most important incident of my trip across Antarctica [TIME, Jan. 27] was the raising of the Stars & Stripes in that territory of 350,000 square miles of vast untamed land, the last unclaimed territory on earth...