Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen Henry for 30 years ? and only Joe and Elsie, the humble, got any lasting happiness out of the whole affair. They were married as soon as Joe was convalescent, and one certainly hopes that Doctor Raste, their new employer, set a good table ? for the inarticulately heroic Elsie had at least a year's meals to make...
Howard Pyle was best known as an illustrator, in heroic style, of adventure stories for boys. He it was who first made Stevenson, Cooper, Malory's Morte d'Arthur-not to mention his own Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, etc.-alive in many a boy's heart; but he was also a great and serious artist on canvas and in mural decoration. Pyle was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1853, and lived there until his death in 1911. He knew the satisfaction of being an honored prophet in his own community. To his home flocked...
...nose in that he is not promptly pinned down and held up for inspection. We know them all and like practically all of them- Felix himself, sensitive, delightfully vain, adroit, an artist fundamentally, hugely enjoying a world which has little for him save hard knocks; his mother, capable, heroic, un- questioningly devoted; Grumps, the bibulous Scotch grandfather, one of the most keenly observed and original figures in recent literature; the histrionic and ineffective father; Godfrey, the actor-brother, with a sonorous voice and the manner of a Grand Duke; Aunt Julie, the Incubus, who descends in all her Victorian smugness...
...When we meet on this anniversary of the Armistice, is it to celebrate the war, the victory, or the peace that followed? I do not know. But this insistent fact presents itself: that every thing man does must leave its trace indelibly in human lives; that an heroic deed has its effect upon the thoughts, and therefore on the acts, of other men. For us the value of the past lies in the future, and we measure that which has been done by what it makes us do. To honor those who have greatly lived and died is doubly right...
...finally a moderately entertaining example of the cloak and sword in drama. An illegitimate child, a revolutionist, a wandering mountebank, finally "the most powerful man in Paris" during the Revolution; thus the fortunes of Scaramouche unfold. Unfortunately the quiet talents of that excellent actor Sidney Blackmer fit wretchedly the heroic velvet and sash of the hero. When fiery flame is needed he only smoulders pleasantly. Otherwise the cast and the production are considerably better than the arrant melodrama deserves...