Word: heroisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portuguese, sympathetic with Spain's Whites, kept broadcasting to the Alcázar cadets from Lisbon: "The world is breathless before your heroism! If you can hold out you can have full revenge on your tormentors. Moroccan troops have instructions not to leave a soul alive in Toledo! They are within nine miles of the city butchering Marxist villagers." This false claim made mirth for the Reds who also guffawed when White Seville broadcast on Aug. 31 the lie that White "Colonel Yague is at the gates of Toledo...
...details. Jubilant were the Chancellor's friends, now busy grooming him to succeed Stanley Baldwin before long as Prime Minister, but fearful that frosty Mr. Chamberlain lacks the human appeal necessary to hold the highest office in Great Britain with success. After his spontaneous duck-pond heroism they all felt immensely more hopeful, and London newspapers blazed out with the first human interest story of all time about Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Privy Councilor to His Majesty and M. P. for Ladywood...
Genesis- Not the winds of Texas, nor Jaunty Jim Allred was the author of Texas Centennial. In 1923 the editor of a Manhattan financial weekly addressed the Advertising Clubs of Texas on "What Texas Has To Advertise and How To Advertise It." History and heroism were Texas' greatest assets, he said. Let Texas celebrate her glorious escape from the yoke of Mexico. The idea spread like fire in the tinder of Texas' best advertising minds. . Governor Pat Neff issued a proclamation calling a Centennial meeting. Some 2,000 Texans came, a Centennial Board was set up. That advertising...
...friends dead, sets out for the Eastern Front. An epilog shows Bertin in 1919 going to call on the Kroysing parents, to tell them "how their sons had died, and in how pitiful and futile a fashion; they must be made to understand that it was no deed of heroism or sacrifice, that had robbed them of two young men who would have comforted them in their old age; it was an act of villainy, and a stroke of chance." But when he sees the old couple in their garden he understands that illusion is all that is left them...
Japanese nobility is made to consist in sacrificing one's wife to the caresses of a foreigner, in order to rifle that outsider's secret papers. This almost smacks of anti-Oriental propaganda, it is so completely alien to our more prosaic conceptions of heroism, that the Occidental spectator remains rather impassive to the heart-rending close, in which the naval commander who sold his wife for the secrets of the British rule of the waves is made to stab himself most ceremoniously and mortally in spite of his glorious victory. If it comes to frank appraisal, it must...