Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lend himself to a discreditable plot of the Duke of Buckingham's-the abduction of the beautiful actress, Sylvia Farquharson, for his Grace's amorous purposes. But the vile act once accomplished, and the well known Sylvia discovered to be his boyhood sweetheart, Holies proved properly heroic-spitted Buckingham in the liver-wing-suffered a terrible beating from that gentleman's lackeys- nursed Sylvia through the plague, then raging-escaped from a dead-cart-and generally conducted himself in such proper d'Artagnan fashion that it seemed only fair for Mr. Sabatini to reward him with...
Benito Mussolini: "At Pescara, Italy, I visited poet Gabriele d'Annunzio's birthplace, an humble cottage. I was received by his former governess, shown the household relics. From a window I addressed a crowd: 'Let our reverend thoughts wend their way to d'Annunzio, the heroic soldier, faithful Italian, wonderful poet. Viva...
...applauded. No one likes to see melodrama better than do I; but it must be a pleasure to be able to portray life as it really is and make it vitally interesting. Many a man can visualize a heroine saved from a villain's grasp by the heroic pistol point; but only the rare genius can make the purchase of a new golf course poignant...
Hardly a day passes that without headlines quoting _ some personage on the necessity for men to save the world from ruin. Possibly it is this very call that is robbing the stage. " Men," in the heroic sense, usually look down on the actor. So widespread is this convention that men are not becoming actors. Accordingly, our stage lacks new, young blood...
...idea is not novel. And the emphasis is bad. Education for the mere purpose of propping up a nation is apt to be a very curious kind of education. Spanish books of history speak thus of our war with Spain: " After battles on land and sea and many heroic deeds by our brave soldiers and sailors, Spain agreed to peace terms which obliged the North Americans to pay us twenty million dollars of their money." True-but incomplete...