Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swing-Johnson bill has passed the House. Arizona's two Senators, Ashurst and Hayden, prevented its passing the Senate only by a most heroic filibuster in the closing hours of last session. This session the bill has prime place on the Senate's calendar and Arizonans do not see how they are going to stop it again. A special engineering commission asked for by Congress last spring to make a final survey, has reported that the Swing-Johnson plans are entirely feasible, though perhaps $40,000,000 more expensive than estimated...
Generously the great Actor-Manager Sacha Guitry provided for his choosey feminine patrons two Lindberghs-Voila! Also he entitled his piece Charles Lindbergh-A Heroic Melodrama. Finally, with the cunning of a master dramatist, he supplied love interest-without offending that large section of French womanhood to whom Le Colonel is attractive chiefly as a symbol of masculine chastity...
...months and pitted the Nationalist Generalissimo against the strongest armies and keenest brains which a coalition of Northern War Lords could fling against him in a Death struggle to retain their power. This part of Chiang's saga should be told at epic length, for it was marked by heroic vicissitudes. At one time, sorely defeated, the Generalissimo resigned his command and retired to his native village (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Within a few months he had cheered up, married a sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, and was seen victoriously back in the fray. Just...
...tooth decayed into the jawbone and set up inflammation of the middle ear. . . . The King suffered intense pain with heroic stoicism...
Life-story of the straightlaced, humorless, heroic woman who made woman's suffrage inevitable...