Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With only a week more of opera to go, Manhattan's Metropolitan last week turned up its biggest surprise of the season. He was a brand-new and authentic example of a very rare operatic commodity: a Wagnerian Heldentenor (heroic tenor). His name: Emery Darcy...
...were the gliders, bearing U.S. engineer troops, jeeps, mules, shovels, road graders. The landings were not without accident: the commanding engineer officer was killed, other gliders crashed, some passengers came to earth surrounded by Japs and had to fight their way to the main body. But within 24 hours, heroic toil had finished the first landing strip. Then came the transport planes. It was eight days before the surprised Japs even sent a plane to see what was happening. Royal Air Force Spitfires quickly chased it away...
...they may have thrown away their only chance for a truly independent Poland. In Russia, a Soviet-sponsored Polish National Council stood ready to make full-fledged claims to speak for all Poland. For a nation of patriots, for the people whom Winston Churchill had eulogized as "that heroic race whose national spirit centuries of misfortune cannot quench," this was a tragic hour...
...foot soldiers and sailors who note flyers wearing as many as 14 decorations. But something is being done about it. This month President Roosevelt ordered Secretaries Knox and Stimson to formulate regulations for a new medal, the Bronze Star, to be awarded Army, Navy and Marine Corps personnel "for heroic or meritorious service not involving aerial flight," i.e., a sort of Air Medal for ground and surface forces...
...flashbacks they tell Cinemactor Rains the story of their crimes, their sufferings, their escape. It makes for steamy jungle cinematography and theatrical but heartfelt political talk, which barely succeed in suggesting a fantastically heroic, patriotic allegory. Once the men are through talking, the Captain, in the film's best bit of acting, announces the French armistice. Then he secretly sets his course for England. The Fascists stage a mutiny and are defeated. The Fascist radio operator gives a Nazi bomber their position. The bomber's guns rake the decks murderously before Humphrey, Bogart, singlehanded, shoots it down. Cinemactor...