Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles. The other half is devoted to a dull narrative in which James Stewart and Joan Crawford, as a pair of professional skaters (who never skate), achieve fame in the movies. Silliest sequence: Stewart's heroic farewell to his skating partner (Lew Ayres) when their act breaks...
Yale, it seems, no longer goes in for the individualism which made New England and Henry Ford what they are. For Yale men are sliding into a rut--a rut of Stoverism. The heart of every little Eli beats for one thing only: to be more like Dick Stover, heroic figure from the blue mists of Yale legend who was that most extraordinary of all curiosa, the typical Yale man. What position more enviable than living the life of Stover, the life of a good fellow, with evenings at Morry's, with the respect of all Freshmen, with the notoriety...
...over Governor Patterson's veto) Tennessee's first prohibition law. (A second act: to erect a heroic Carmack statue at the Capitol's entrance...
...unfair to judge a man by a legend that has grown up around his life; yet in the case of George Washington the legend; however unfair, has its significance. Besides the misty notions of an heroic figure this legend drags with it to the present the picture of a great man and a wise man with a comparatively unexciting personality. Such is the unfortunate lot of a hero who does not happen to be an eccentric...
...Loyalists' first capital,* the Premier called what remains of his cabinet together, proclaimed Madrid the capital once more of the Loyalist Government. With weatherbeaten old General Miaja as Generalissimo and commander-in-chief of all of central Spain, the Premier drafted a proclamation calling for "a compact, heroic national front" to make a last-ditch stand in the Madrid area. "Our fate is at stake and it depends entirely upon ourselves to come out successfully from the present situation through our own will power and determination. Either we shall all save ourselves or sink ourselves in extermination and opprobrium...