Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other heroes, more or less heroic, and their ghosts (as given by Mr. Schuyler) are, or were...
...villagers sit up, rub eyes. But whether it is a good show or a bad show or a peep show, the newspapers have certainly brought the art of ballyhoo to new heights of volume and penetration. Through it all, the hero of the occasion has been, appropriately, the most heroic aspect of it. Never has his tongue or his balance slipped, always has he been what kindly old ladies might call "a real nice boy." Anyone might have said, as Colonel Lindbergh said at the performance of Rio Rita: "I won't keep you long; you'd rather...
...would perform no great feat, arouse no great attention. But should he make, consecutively, 100,000 throws, 100,000 catches, he would become a famed person whom vaudeville patrons would lay down dimes, quarters, halves to see. For any action, no matter how trivial or inane, becomes a heroic achievement, if it is persisted in long enough to constitute some sort of record...
There is no doubt that Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine accomplished a heroic feat (TIME, June 13). Daring, they made a non-stop flight of 3,905 miles-the longest in history. Resolute, they reached Berlin after twice being forced to descend en route. Worthy, they were honored by President Paul von Hindenburg and the German people...
...movies anything can happen. Heroes can be heroic with little or no effort: villains can lead lives unblemished by any redeeming virtues: heroines can get away with murder in fact they often do. In the movies anything can happen so Cecil B. de Mille decided to film the Bible. There were groans at the announcement that the man who wears the nattyist sport shirts in Hollywood and who has the most devoted elique of yes-men ever gathered, and that in a city where yes-men are as thick as section-men in Cambridge, intended to make a cinema version...