Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a living out of heroism become cynical. Graft-ridden China was too tempting for Hero Hall. Soon Chinese officials sued him in San Francisco for $100,000 they claimed they had given him to buy airplanes. After the suit was withdrawn, Hall returned to China to engage in further elaborate dealings with his fellow Chinese generals. Last fortnight he left hastily for Japan. At the port he was refused entry to Japan and sent back to Tientsin where last week he was arrested. Nanking's Chief of Ordnance General Ho Chu-kuo charged that "General Chan" once cashed...
...most distinguished officers in the British Navy. Born 52 years ago, he is the Lieutenant Evans known to every British schoolboy as the second-in-command of the famed Scott expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-12. The South Pole did not end Lieutenant Evans' heroism. During the War he was in command of the Broke when that destroyer and the Swift fought off six German destroyers in 1917. Three times since the War he has been given medals for saving life at sea. He has been C.-in-C. of the Australian Navy and has written a number...
...hectic routine of rehearsals and road showings, Lily has stolen from the leading lady not only her role, but her fiance, who happens to be leading man. On the eve of the play's first showing in New York, she quits the cast, with an elaborate display of heroism, in favor of the leading lady, and returns to her home. The play is nevertheless a success, but the manager and the playwright ignore it to hurry after her with separate proposals of marriage. Surprisingly, the manager arrives first. Years of novelizing have given Booth Tarkington a glib though obvious...
...last surviving Federal general of the Civil War, oldest West Point graduate (Class of 1861), long-time golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller; of old age; in Ormond Beach, Fla. He entered the Civil War a lieutenant, was a 29-year-old major general when it ended. For heroism in the first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor of a Southern State, to resign...
...Pope Pius; to Psychiatrist Earl Danford Bond,.Philadelphia's $10,000 Bok prize for city service; to James Orr Elton, Anaconda Copper Mining Co. metallurgist, the 1933 James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet fever germ and serum...