Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hideous, heroic smash...
...Stallings, like most of those young men who were active in the War, does not care to have his War experiences discussed. In this instance, they were heroic ones. That he has been able to see them with detachment, and to view the War with fairness, is one of the things that make him the very unusual person, the very fine writer that...
...journalistic trade sheets, advertising rises to truly heroic heights ; mere ink and pulp perform prodigious feats. Boosters, hustlers, live-wires, pushers, thousands of miles apart, loudly shout or quietly whisper, hint, insinuate, brazenly state or solemnly propound their messages across the page...
...Manhattan, Miss Marina Hoffman finished an heroic group, two figures, representing England and the U. S., to adorn the facade of Bush House* in London. The statues, when erected in stone, will be twelve feet high. Each figure rests his arms on a shield bearing the coat-of-arms of his country. England's attitude is one of authority and experience, America's is that of a young athlete, keen, ready...
...economists in England-notably J. M. Keynes and Arthur Kitson-doubt the advisability of going back to the gold standard anyway, and, consciously or not, are inflationists. The Labor Government is also naturally in favor of easier money. Moreover, the London money market itself rather shrinks from pursuing the heroic seemingly necessary remedy of higher rates proposed by Mr. Leaf...