Word: heroisms
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Already in the streets was a Franco manifesto packed with high Latin bombast: "The War was won despite the Government and the encyclopedic ineptitude of the army high command, thanks to the heroism and abnegation of the people. . . . The new Government will arrange a just peace with Bolivia, cede to the homeless the lands now owned by the wealthy, colonize the country with Paraguayans instead of undesirable foreigners, grant subsidies to war widows and mutilated veterans...
...West Extension was started in 1905 after Mr. Flagler gave his engineers the legendary order: "Go to Key West!" It was one of the most famed engineering achievements of its day. Every inch was built not by contractors but by the railroad itself. Novels were written around the heroism of its construction crews. On three occasions long sections were destroyed by hurricanes. When a hurricane approached, floating equipment was scuttled to preserve it, and then raised after the wind and seas abated. It took $27,985,000, hundreds of lives and nearly eight exasperating years to build the Key West...
...relief for the besieged legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion. Disguised as a beggar, Yao made the 90-mile trip on foot through country overrun with Boxers who were killing every Christian-Chinese or foreign-they could find. Captured many times, Yao always talked himself out. For his heroism Yao was offered a copper medal and later a reward of 1,000 taels. An ardent Christian, he thought that figure too high, gladly accepted the medal and 500 taels. From the income of this invested reward he still lives happily here on a few dollars a month, spends most...
...Mutiny on the Bounty" is one of those elemental pictures of drama in the rough. It is a staggering mixture of salt water, cruelty, agony, privation, and heroism, and it leaves the audience pleasantly exhausted. It is enriched but not softened by glimpses of tropical love and languorous Tahitian beauties...
...first artists to co-directly out of a peculiar art sponsored by former furriers and glove salesmen. Like her he has remained in the imaginations of those who applauded the screen's first crudities and naive, simplicity that often had a power of its own. Manly, but not robust heroism and splendid, sad faced patience through adversity won Richard Barthelmess his place...