Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After this heroic dose of pills and possets for the intellect, the delegates climbed aboard a special train and sped across the Norwegian Alps to Bergen...
...gentleman upon what I think is an outrage on humanity. . . . I believe this [film] account of the execution to be fully apocryphal [i. e. fictitious or spurious]. I feel that it is an outrage upon a noble woman's memory to turn to purposes of commercial profit so heroic a story...
Such were the heroic words gasped out by a desperately wounded Italian Colonel during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12. Death was, however, not quite ready to snatch away Armando Diaz, then 51, and quite unknown outside the Army. By a miracle he recovered from his battle wounds and lived to die, last week, in bed, of bronchial pneumonia, at 66. The 15 years of grace thus granted by Death had enabled Colonel Diaz to become Marshal Diaz, the nation's military idol, the first commander to lead United Italy from national defeat to national victory...
...stalks into a drugstore bar on the way home, puts his foot on the rail, demands a double-chocolate-marshmallow-pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich. Before supper he reads the fortnightly crime ofthe "crime of the century" in his favorite newspaper.* That the night, dressed in heroic robes, he enters the oaken door of a temple and becomes Sir Knight Errant of the Mystic Order of Granada. Sunday, on the golf links, he tells his companions: "I got a birdie here last week," instead of the oldtime "I shot a buffalo here." After his labors, he dreams over...
...known as "A. E.", in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter after his lecture and reading yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. "In every movement of national scope," he said, "the poets have been very active. I believe that in Ireland there will always be a race of heroic idealists. The poets in their imagination have connected earth imagination have connected earth with heaven...