Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lettie. The underpaid maid-of all work. In despair at his iniquity Jeel appeals to Jenny. Jenny money seventy-five dellars from a Junior Leaguer on the main street of Fall River and sends it to him. He is about to escape when he learns Lettie is with child. Heroic little Joel gives her Jenny's money and resolves to stick it out. It is these three children who find themselves faced with the problem of reconciling to the tribal conventions of the outside world their own sense of being "different." Their solutions of this problem constitute the main interest...
...make it appear that Tom-Tom is guilty of the crime. Tom-Tom is sentenced to exile in Bogey-land but before its inhabitants?miniature King-Kongs with pitchfork teeth?have time to destroy him, the villagers of Toyland discover the real culprit. This leads first to a heroic rescue of Tom-Tom by Ollie and Stannie and finally to a war in which the bogeys are decimated by a regiment of wooden soldiers...
...other feature Joe Brown peddles his way to heroic victory in the six day bike race. The inevitable last shot displays Brown's offspring successfully mouthing a bicycle bell, proving beyond the strength of mere woman's words that the lad is Brown's progeny...
...sooner was King Alexander murdered than all the people of Yugoslavia began wondering who would be chosen to execute the official memorial to him. Sculptor Mestrovic will do a heroic statue for the family tomb at Oplenatz. Painter Vanka has already finished the portrait...
...ordinary U. S. reader, "Armenian" suggests Levantine rug-dealers, massacres, Michael Arlen. But last week Author Franz Werfel gave the word a new and heroic significance. In The Forty Days of Musa Dagh he recited an Armenian epic founded on an actual incident of the World War. Humanizing one more bloody no-man's-land, this 817-page novel immediately takes its place, with All Quiet on the Western Front and The Case of Sergeant Grischa, as one of the War's big books...