Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...towels, or even some coarse-woven wearing apparel. If aromatic spirits of ammonia were handy, they should have mixed one or two tablespoonfuls in four to six ounces of water and let the cloudy mixture trickle over the horse's tongue every 20 minutes. But this is a heroic measure of last recourse...
...take-much more heroism to save life than to take it. ... Unfortunately most of the monuments of the world are to somebody who has killed a lot of his fellow men. . . . I do not expect to create a race of heroes by offering prizes. I know well that the heroic action is impulsive. . . . But I have all along felt that heroes and their dependents should be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism." Observers noted that no pecuniary cares have devolved upon Edda Mussolini as a result of her heroism. Accordingly she will receive only a medal. The Hero...
...fall of 1890 it was conceded that the condition of our rowing affairs required heroic treatment. The captain of the '91 crew called together the graduates most interested in the matter, and laid before then a propositions by which the services of Mr. Bancroft, Mr. Cook's successful rival from 1877 to 1884, could be secured for three consecutive years, and not only the Varsity, but the Freshman crews were to be under his coaching. Seven out of the nine past crew captains heartily approved of the idea. All the undergraduates and 95 out of every 100 graduates favored...
...behalf on the Commonwealth and of the City. And the graduation day picture was completed at the close of the second act, when Mr. Jewett in response to polite applause after his somewhat pompous speech, advanced to the footlights and proceeded to recite a great many lines of heroic verse after the "Roll-on-thou-deep-and-vast-blue-ocean-Roll" manner of the Elocution Class. Very luckily for the audience Mr. Francis Wilson bounced on to the stage a few moments later and in an absurdly serious speech, satirized the solemn bromides of the proceeding speakers so masterfully that...
...difference between the literature of today and that of the eighteenth century, which makes the similarity of this age and that of Pope nothing more than a one-sided resemblance. The neoclassical age was preeminently an age of form. Today the fashion runs to formlessness. Instead of the stately heroic couplet, poetry now flies to the freedom of vers libre. Instead of the terse, direct prose of Swift, satire now expresses itself in the genial lunacy of Donald Ogden Stewart or Ronald Fairbank...