Word: heroisms
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...decision will seem wise, for the chapel will inevitably in the long run be primarily a memorial to heroism, and the spirit of sacrifice was surely present in both lines of trenches. Only those are surprised that Columbia now resumes its exchange professorship with the University of Berlin who had supposed that the old bond had long ago been reforged. President Lowell, surely, will find all Harvard alumni with him in his readiness to forecast the reconciliation of the future...
they felt to be their duty, and personal motives of patriotism and heroism were alike. If I am right, All Souls College at Oxford was founded for the souls of all who perished in the Hundred Years' War, and no one could think of criticising such a memorial...
...vagrant actors to provide glimpses of primitive life. They stage a melodrama in the lobby in which the business of "unhand that woman" and "the viper beats my mother" is used with proper gusto. Genuine bank-robbers bring excitement to the closing sequences, in which Oakie proves that his heroism is more than histrionic. Typical shot: Pallette, as a pseudo-Sioux chief, trying to understand why, if a girl is Sue (Sioux) her father is not Sioux also...
...which pictures of gangland portrayed the heroism and sterling tendency, according to the previews has been to depict the realities of the underworld. "The Secret Six", now playing at Loew's State follows the latter rule. The purpose of this production is to prove that the old adage that there is honor among thieves is all wrong...
...school boys who have read Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, few have been more impressed than was Charles Robert Walsh, a shy, 13-year-old student at Saint Joseph's High School in Philadelphia. Charles Walsh thrilled so deeply to the tales of Revolutionary bloodshed, to the heroism of Sidney Carton, that he undertook to dramatize the story, labored on it for weeks...