Word: heroisms
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...artistic merit of the picture lies in its ability to make an ungarnished section of humanity glow with a composite heroism. Rhythm seems to be the secret of its intensity...
...Sacrifice. In the middle of the act, a hasty retreat is ordered. No one has time to extricate Bill and Alf from their equine environment. The subsequent adventures of a horse's upper on four human legs, among inebriated German invaders' leads to a timely heroism. Bill becomes a sergeant, pays back all the corporal's petty tyranny. It is doubtful, if even Syd's brother, Charlie, ever made so many people laugh so loud and so long...
...professional swim ming instructor. She saved lives, was decorated three times by King Christian of Denmark. In 1919 she came to the U. S., saved another life, was awarded a Carnegie medal for heroism. Once she swam around the island of Manhattan (42 miles) in 15 hours, 57 seconds. In the same year, she trudgeon-crawled from Albany to New York (153 miles) in 66 swimming hours, stopping, of course, for sleep at night. On this excursion Clemington Corson, assistant superintendent of the U. S. S. Illinois, handled the oars of her rowboat. Later they were married, and now have...
...Heroism is a salamander virtue. Sometimes fear wakes immortal courage in a craven; avarice will make a miser brave; an infantryman who got the Congressional Medal for taking a machine-gun nest single-handed declared that he sallied out because he was afraid of lightning-a thunderstorm had made him too nervous to stay in his trench. But the 75 U. S. soldiers who, in the Philippines, voluntarily submitted to the bite of the yellow fever mosquito to find out whether this insect also carried dengue fever, had no such excuse. Their story was told last week in the report...
...stations; also the nucleus of the Northern Bombing Group. Submarines were bombed, airplanes shot down by "Unit" members; Dave Ingalls became naval ace, with four planes and a balloon to his credit; Di Gates, Commander of an air-station, was recommended for the Congressional medal of honor for heroism. Three* of the "Unit" were killed-two in action. Destroyers were named for these two. Wherever there was naval aviation, there was a "Yale Unit" man. Admiral Sims said: "The great aircraft force which was ultimately assembled in Europe had its beginning in a small group of undergraduates at Yale University...