Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden attains heroic stature as the organ (though a nasal one) of chivalric poetry...
...opening up of the submarine revealed "one of the most heartrending and pathetic tragedies in the history of the Japanese Navy." Scribbled messages on scraps of paper, op chests, doors and floor of the stricken boat disclosed the heroic attitude of the men during their last moments...
Since Homer wrote of the heroic feats of unhappy Achilles and of the exploits of the ingenious Odysseus, history has drawn its heroes from the great. The mere nod of a mighty king was of more account to historians than all the people of his kingdom. The era of democracy in history has just begun, and evidently John Buchan is its prophet...
...Crimson jubilation was short- lived, for the second half quickly took on a decidedly Blue tinge. The heroic efforts of the Harvard defense, particularly Rudofsky, still halted the Eli attackers at a respectable distance from the basket and forced them to resort to mid-court shots. Pite's luck changed, however, and the same sort of long-distance pot-shots which had gone wild in the first half now began to drop through the hoop with disconcerting regularity...
...Catherine Owen). --Audience employs opera glasses at this point. Thereupon the past and the present become inextricably mixed, the lights are turned off, and some minutes later the hero is disclosed perched upon the chandelier, while the two villians lie blood-smeared in a corner. Hero descends and assumes heroic attitude. Heroine rushes in, and the future is prophesied in the usual way. (Curtain...