Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Odin's adventures in a fairyland whose marches lie more in his own nature than in the Norwegian countryside. Though he is only a bastard Juviking, enough corpuscles of that great family's blood tingle in his veins to make them burn intermittently with mischievous, heroic, un earthly music...
...Mangada, the only officer present who refused to join Spain's Chief of Staff in shouting "Viva Espana!" (the last words uttered by King Alfonso XIII before he left Spain). Rebuked by the Chief of Staff in the presence of common soldiers for refusing to shout "Viva Espana!", heroic Lieut.-Colonel Mangada reached for his service pistol, was pounced upon and arrested...
...claim of the veterans upon the taxpayer's pocketbook is selfish and altogether unfounded. There is no beatitude which promises the United States' Treasury to the drafted-into-arms, nor was there any heroic self-sacrifice on the part of the most of the men who formed the American Expeditionary Forces. Many of them were drafted, and used every expedient to avoid service. Others of the "veterans" never saw a transport. They have only the precedent of Civil War and Spanish-American War survivors to give them a moral basis for their demand, and thinking people agree that such...
...appendicitis operation, is called from bed to diagnose a belly ache, is kept from bed by a broken arm. He still gets about four hours of sleep a night and in the mornings the knives sometimes tremble in his hands. He smokes too many cigarettes. This again is not heroic. People are sick and people are poor and other people take care of them. This, too, is stinking and sweaty. And yet in the town shopmen call him "Doc" and slip an extra carton of cigarettes in his box of provisions. In mud time when the Ford slips into...
...money he tutored in the winter; caddied, waited on table, managed a restaurant in the summer. At term time he slept four hours a night, in the vacations he sometimes never slept at all. And in the end he got his diploma. "But it was not," he said," a heroic business. It was dirty, and stinking, and sweaty, and I hated it. Anyone could do it, and I advise...