Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other two medals went to Novelist-Historian Owen Wister, because "America, right or wrong; colorful, adventurous, romantic, blind, heroic, banal, lives and breathes" in his pages: and to Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, for 30 years of able service...
...Hollywood craftsmen spliced around them a silly but exciting story about an Englishman whose best friends hand him white feathers when they find out he is scared of going to war against the blacks. When his sweetheart hands him the fourth white feather, he starts a series of heroic deeds which result in preserving his three friends in turn and possibly also the British Empire. The last reel fades out as he is about to hand the fourth feather back to Fay Wray. Best shot: a monkey carrying a piece of string over the wall of the black hole...
Before a crowd which thronged around the second team diamond and cheered until it could no more the bruised and bespattered, but doughty CRIMSON nine fought a heroic uphill fight to down their traditional Lampoon rivals by the conventional score of 23 to 2 in one of the most exciting and rugged battles which Soldiers Field has ever witnessed in all its decades of existence...
...jayvee race brought the only Harvard victory, and proved small consolation at that, for Cornell's No. 6 oar snapped at the button over half a mile from the finish. The Ithacans continued pounding away with an heroic beat and clung closely tot he heavy Harvard crew whose shell was noticeably lower in the waves than either, Tech or Cornell. In the final sprint Cornell could not keep up but the prow of the Tech boat riding high and clear, shot forward past amidships of the sinking Crimson shell and nearly snatched the victory from the Harvard eight...
...today. The jeunesse Doré was lightly employed in drawing for Parisian magazines, notably Journal pour Rire. But Doré, an excellent draughtsman, had his serious moments. In the France where he lived (1832-83), Satanism was in the air. There was Baudelaire, whose hero was Milton's heroic Satan, and there was Huysmans who had studied the Black Mass. It was fashionable to wear black clothes and look mysterious. Doré, too, turned to Satan, but objectively. He illustrated Dante's Inferno in 1861, the Bible and Paradise Lost in 1866. Throughout France, and then throughout...