Word: heroisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expertly sandwiched between the pratfalls and the broad pie-throwing burlesque of suburban manners lies a richer comedy idea-the alchemy by which a phoney hero is transmuted from the base metal of conventional heroics to the pure gold of true heroism...
...Canterville birthmark was discovered on the neck of a U.S. soldier (Robert Young) billeted at Canterville Castle. When the ghost and little Lady Jessica (Margaret O'Brien) told him that his heroism must lay the Canterville ghost, G.I. Young was scared to death. But in the long run he proved himself a red-blooded American...
Game in Finland. "Applied to Finland, this meant keeping her in the war as long as possible, making plans to provoke civil war when Finnish arms collapse, securing maximum publicity in Finland and the Allied world for Finnish heroism contrasted with crude Russian vindictiveness and barbarism...
International music circles, remembering Strauss's huge international royalties in the past, knowing him for a highly practical artist, were inclined to discount the heroism in his stubbornness. On the other hand, it was quite conceivable that the 80-year-old composer might have balked at riding the few remaining miles to music's Valhalla aboard the Nazi bandwagon...
Lieut. Commander Chester W. Nimitz Jr., only son of CINCPAC Chester W. Nimitz, was awarded the Navy's Gold Star for "conspicuous heroism" in "actions resulting in sinking enemy shipping and in damaging other vessels...