Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milliken's well-written advertisement quoted correctly, but wisely abstained from drawing certain distinctions. "Harakiri" is only one form of suicide, at which the Japanese are peculiarly adept. Newsman Russell admits the Western screen is encouraging Japs to restrain from their heroic belly-cutting, BUT (here Mr. Milliken forgot to quote) AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER FORMS OF SUICIDE. "A Japanese authority who has studied suicide in his country." says Mr. Russell . . . "blames the movies for the increase of other forms of self-despatch...
...accept the easy way. "I am ready," he said, "to do all possible, institute every economy, shoulder every responsibility and stand every criticism, to carry on." Treasurer Dumaine, onetime mill boy, has been called "a past master in New England economy." His economies at Amoskeag were heroic. Amoskeag messenger boys now furnish their own bicycles; Amoskeag trucks, all except three, stay inside the plant walls to avoid the necessity for license plates. With costs at the rockiest of rock bottoms, Treasurer Dumaine has also modernized production and selling. The new rayon mill turned out 800,000 Ib. of rayon last...
What U. S. dog performed the most heroic feat during the past six months? The Spratt's Dog Food Co. wanted to know for publicity reasons and to award a gold medal. Last week the judges reached decision...
Millions of people to whom Calvin Coolidge had been and was still an oracle of heroic proportions, and more millions to whom he had been no such thing, read with deepest interest what Mr. Coolidge had to say. One of the first things they noticed was the sense of responsibility with which the oracle approached his task. Here was not the informal, drily amusing Calvin Coolidge of Amherst reunions, where he is content to sit on the ground and idly chat with friends, nor was it the taciturn, retiring inhabitant of the little Northampton law office and the shady...
Married. Mrs. Eleanor Stuart Blue, widow of Rear Admiral Victor Blue, U. S. N. who, as a lieutenant in the Spanish-American War was advanced in rank for "extraordinary and heroic service" in aiding the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor; and Rear Admiral Frederic Brewster Bassett Jr., U. S. N. (retired), also a Spanish War veteran; at Chatham...