Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...events of "the Forty-five" leading up to the bloody collapse at Culloden, Author Mackenzie tells little, concentrates on the loyal heroism of Prince Charlie's protectors after the battle, when redcoats combed the country for him. One of his hostesses, Anne Macintosh, on a visit to London three years after, found herself dancing with the Duke of Cumberland (known to all good Jacobites as "the Butcher of Culloden"). The first dance over, she asked if she might choose the air for the second, called for The Auld Stuarts Back Again...
...that motivated the present action in the last analysis. It was a smoke-screen whose effect was primarily for home consumption and, whichever way dispersed on the resulting gale was calculated to enhance the Fuehrer's prestige at home. That it has enveloped him in a mantle of masterful heroism rather than a martyr's shroud for the German people, is simply so much grist to his mill. His position, which the events of the past year, such as the murderous party purge at Munich and elsewhere, indicated as extremely precarious, is again made secure--for the present. Meanwhile...
After recognizing the heroism of German soldiers, and setting up a tablet in their honor, Harvard has been insulted, and its chapel defiled, by a wreath placed under said tablet bearing the official mark and colors of the German people. Not only that, but the German representative in Boston did the dastardly deed, under the guise of recognizing Harvard's breadth of mind in honoring the memories of America's former enemies...
...grand age by attempting to seat L'Aiglon, the young son of Napoleon, on the throne of his father. Although they fail in the attempt, their remarkable loyalty and indomitable courage is faithfully reproduced in this picture. Perhaps a bit remanticized in treatment, it nevertheless has captured the quiet heroism of these men as they succumb to the firing squad in the brilliant uniforms of the Graude Armee...
...Four thousand actors performed in it at one time or another. It cost about $1,300,000. Strangely enough, the time and money were well spent. In its finished form, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is precisely what it should be, a rich and engrossing melodrama, concerned with heroism, pigsticking, torture chambers, spies and the White Man's Burden, which should delight all occidental audiences and infuriate Mahatma Gandhi...