Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black, circular object. A ring. Spattered on his shoes lay the reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers who had defied an exploding arsenal with water buckets. Little metal knicknacks were pondered on with shrugging shoulders. Unidentified. Meanwhile, other Navy committees investigate...
Sculptor James E. Fraser will make the statues; Edwin H. Blashifield is working on the murals; Egerton Swartout of Manhattan was the architect, a designer of trite but heroic fancy and considerable resource. He built the Missouri State Capitol, the Victory Memorial in Washington, the Mary Baker Eddy Memorial in Boston, the Post Office and Court House in Denver, the Municipal Auditorium at Macon, Ga., and similar edifices...
...almost insuperable political difficulties which beset him in Austria does him credit. It was his thankless task to discharge 100,000 superfluous Government employes, as rapacious a band of entrenched bureaucrats as were ever left over from an overturned monarchial regime. Naturally, Dr. Zimmermann has remained, since that heroic and salutary pruning action, one of the best hated men in Austria; a symbol to the unstable and irresponsible factions in the Austrian Parliament of all that is abhorrent to scheming politicians. That the good Doctor's staunch inflexible Dutch honesty and obstinacy have won out over so much intrigue...
Prideful as a pouter pigeon, Gabriele d' Annunzio, spoiled heroic darling of all Italy, announced last week that "cherry elixir," a liqueur invented and concocted by himself, has been pronounced "most excellent" by the Sanctissimus Pater, Pius XI (Achille Ratti...
Perhaps Senator Watson and farm-allies had been too frisky. It appeared that the President had skillfully cast the responsibility for farm legislation back on Congress, with the result that farm-champions might be forced to abandon their heroic role and take what modicum of farm relief the Administration was willing to approve...