Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole book is a grand parade, with banners flapping, barkers barking, and calliopes screeching, and the heroic portrait of Barnum ever in the background. If one can overlook this, which does grow distasteful after a time, he will find much that is entertaining, and much that is instructive in the art of kidding the public with pleasure and profit...
...slender shell, grinned with gratification. Coxswain of the Cambridge University crew for four years, he had just participated in his fourth straight triumph over dark blue rivals from Oxford. The Oxford eight, conceded little chance to win, was kept in the 4¼-mile race mainly through the heroic efforts of Howard T. ("Ox") Kingsbury Jr. This gentleman, captain of last year's undefeated Yale crew, pulled a mighty oar, shouted encouragement to his wilting shell-mates, kept the winners' margin to an honorable three lengths. The Cambridge time was 20 min. 14 sec.; the course record, held...
...plan includes asking all those who view the statues to cast a ballot for the one thought to be the best. The twelve frontiers-women will now tour the U. S., votes being taken everywhere on their value as art. The final winner will be reproduced on an heroic size scale and erected on the Cherokee Strip near Ponca City in Oklahoma at a cost...
...caught a liability instead of an asset. And here is the end of the second act, with the playwright-actor of his own U. S. comedy still unworthy in the sight of the audience. How to reveal a heart of gold in the bad man? A powder mill explodes. Heroic qualities erupt. With nobility thus suddenly emergent, the ending triumphs happily for all, including the audience...
...dawn of Saxon history, with heroic ideals looming in twilit feudal minds. Aethelwold, the king's foster-brother, prepares to ride into the dawn for the king's bride-a flax-haired Lancelot for a bucolic Arthur. They pledge their fraternity over staked swords. . . . Later, in a druidic Devon wood, Aelfrida's beauty twists this pledge. It is too early in history for a Lancelot to live with his own deceit. He buries his dagger in his own chest for brother-love, which is yet held above love for woman. Hasty critics have objected that such...