Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Remember, Italians have always defeated the black races. The only such battle that turned against us was Adua [Ethiopian victory of 1896]. That was an exception. There we were overwhelmed by superiority of numbers. There 14,000 Italians fought 100,000 Ethiopians. The reason for this heroic and unfortunate exception was that Italy had at that time a government less concerned for its soldiers than for Parliamentary chicanery. Today all Italy is behind its sons! Today all Italy prefers a heroic to a useless life...
...years. It was Connaught who in 1913 revived most of the ancient ritual, for decades in abeyance. Theory of the origin of the Bath is that in medieval times a soldier might well stink so strongly that even his strong-nostriled King might find it necessary to have the heroic fellow washed before dubbing him knight. Last week there was no actual washing, and all 21 new knights appeared most cleanly. Under the stern Great Master's eagle eye they swore "to defend maidens, widows and orphans" and to "suffer no extortion" to be practiced which they are able...
...Bolivia and Paraguay. Portuguese Brazil did not bother to annex the lazy, primitive Guarani Indians sweltering in the low plateaus and lagoon-lands between the Paraguay and Parana Rivers. After Paraguay became an independent nation, the Spanish family of Lopez took it over and willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932, living chiefly on maize and mandioca bread, exporting yerba...
...confusion of receivership, bankruptcy and endless litigation, it was apparent that John Hertz's heroic efforts had made the Paramount hulk worth raising. The studios were unaffected, theatres were open and by the end of 1933, with the help of Mae West's first hit (She Done Him Wrong), the company was making money. Upshot was that a number of people began to take a hand in the salvage operations...
...struggle which the French have made for months to maintain their gold standard has reached heroic proportions. Their inflationary experience of a little over a decade ago convinced them that a decision to devaluate is nothing short of an invitation to disaster, a voluntary walking of the plank. It's much more than a political creed; it's a national frame of mind, the result of bitter experience...