Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teachers' association at Stuttgart: "Looking like a blond does not make you Nordic inside. Racial worth is not a question of outer looks. It is inner feeling. This craze for blonds, which is wasting rivers of peroxide, has gone too far. Many dark-haired people have pure, heroic German souls." Examples: Hitler, Göring, Goebbels...
...generation of U. S. citizens a 93-year-old art scandal that eventually cost the U. S. Government $35,000. In 1832 architects, hurrying to complete the Capitol after its burning by the British in 1814, decided that nothing would be more fitting for the central rotunda than a heroic statue of the Father of His Country. For this they got Congress to vote $5,000, and commissioned U. S. Sculptor Horatio Greenough to carve the figure. Sculptor Greenough promptly went off to the soft Tuscan air of Florence, Italy, where he rented a large studio, enlarged it further, secured...
Proudly the new president called the roll of his college's famed sons- Thomas Jefferson, Peyton and Edmund Randolph, John Marshall, James Monroe, John Tyler. Graciously he placed his guest in the heroic line. His address finished, President Bryan turned to confer the degree of Doctor of Laws on Franklin D. Roosevelt, "restorer of hope to a desperate people . . . imaginative employer of scholarship as the servant of the State." After compliments to President Bryan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Thomas Jefferson...
...best picture at the International Motion Picture Exposition in Venice (TIME, Sept. 24), Man of Aran was exhibited to U. S. audiences for the first time last week. Critics were quick to appreciate its superb pictorial qualities, the honest artistry with which Director Flaherty photographed his characters as heroic dwarfs against the dark, enormous background of a hungry land and a mighty sea. Audiences were equally quick to feel that somehow, in the absence of dramatic line, Man of Aran missed the essence of its subject...
...clock last night, with a mob of about twenty Freshmen gathering to cheer and later to yell 'Rinehart." While Yard cops searched nooks and crannies of the Yard for the missing Colonel, the riot grew to Gargantuan proportions, practically doubling its original number of recruits. Only heroic action by the Yard's defenders broke the back of the rebellion...