Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this irreverent age of the insubordinate younger generation, the heroic example of one Edda, daughter of Mussolini who would not stir her little toe without her father's consent, smells sweeter than garlic in this naughty world. To complete the incident of her temptation, picture now one Hispano-Suiza whining to be thrown into high gear, an overpoweringly handsome member of the Black Hand or perhaps the Black Shirt Club, and a glorious Italian moon, that is as glorious a moon as moons in Italy may be. But Edda was not seduced by the promise of a wild ride behind...
...terms of the Locarno treaties than in mixing up in the latest Balkan row, and the American press pursues the even tenor of its ways. Nowadays murders, assassinations and ultimate flying back and forth among the hot tempered members of the Balkan family remind one more of a mock-heroic farce or a travesty on the art of war, than a serious disturbance...
...young man who has most to do is a talker. He talks so much and so smoothly that he does not bother to work. The system suffices until he talks another man out of his fiancee and marries her himself. Then, in a heroic bit of utter implausibility in the last act, he talks himself into his rich uncle's favor. Apparently he is going to go through" life on the same principle. Not a bad idea, but is it practicable...
Critic Grattan first cited the eulogies of Mr. Page: "The greatest and noblest American since Lincoln"; "The most heroic American of the War period"; "An intense patriot" (thus Charles W. Eliot, John W. Davis, Admiral Sims, Colonel House, Edward W. Bok, William H. Taft in an ad- dress to the Trustees of the Walter Hines Page School of Inter- national Relations); "A great citizen He gave his life...
Rosamond Pinchot straddled a bicycle. Her white twill dress deserting her heroic limbs, her short hair a pennant in the Alpine winds, she dashed to the riding school for a rehearsal...