Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From that time on the Army had things under control. Dozier advised TIME'S editors that none of his actions was to be in any way construed as heroic and that the real credit should go to the U.P.'s Roland Shackford and the A.P.'s Joe McAvoy, who ran the pool in the isolated embassy building and stuck it out, although rioters fired the building four times. "The other unsung heroes of the occasion," he wrote, "were the native All America cable messengers who kept right on dodging snipers and stepping over bodies in the streets...
...invited him to report both political conventions this year. "I'm an old reporter and I can't stand by ... I'll probably end up by going," he forecast, "and blowing up and coming home on a shutter. Oh, well. It's a heroic death...
...first-and best-portrait in the book is of the author's Uncle Christopher, a "swell" of the Victorian era, whose heroic snobbery found its reward-and its doom-in the friendship of that nearly perpetual Prince of Wales who eventually became Edward VII. The story of Sir Christopher Sykes resembles a tale by Max Beerbohm, with this difference: the writer's grave pleasure in his subject never gets out of hand into fantasy...
Their child boss is a cool, foresighted "premier," whose methodical plans for organized robbery are constantly upset by romantic little upstarts who think it is heroic to disregard orders and rules, to thieve when & where they will. At the premier's elbow is a sage elder statesman (aged 12) who acts as moderator between the boss and the upstarts. The rest of the camp is composed of a passive majority, a child-mother, and a deaf mute...
Plainly The Old Lady is a safire castigating Ireland's fiberless present by contrasting it with her heroic past. But possibly it is also a satire about an Ireland grown languid in the present from living too much in the past-an Ireland in which everyone is so busy acting a part that no one acts. All swift scenes and no sustained story, it flares up brightly one moment, falls flat the next, and its expressionism seems dated as often as daring. But the play has much Celtic freshness of language, and the smoothness born of playing it many...