Word: heroisms
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...eyesockets. No, there he was; he lay with his head on his quilt, his legs squirming pinkly on his pillow. Great-grandmother Messinger picked him up, carried him out, collapsed into the arms of Mr. Kronk. Last week the Twentieth Century Club of Goshen gave her a medal for heroism...
...Antinoe. The Solvang rammed a tanker and sank. The Laristan foundered and was lost with all her Malay crew. The Antinoe foundered in a 90-mile gale and blizzard, her 25 officers and men being rescued by the President Roosevelt (George Fried, Captain), which stood by with splendid heroism for four days...
Connoisseurs of philanthropy recalled Mr. Carnegie's often expressed reasons for creating his Hero Fund: "I believe that it take-much more heroism to save life than to take it. ... Unfortunately most of the monuments of the world are to somebody who has killed a lot of his fellow men. . . . I do not expect to create a race of heroes by offering prizes. I know well that the heroic action is impulsive. . . . But I have all along felt that heroes and their dependents should be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism." Observers noted that no pecuniary cares have...
...challenge is clear. Last week the trumpet of daring was pressed to the lips of heroism and sounded a venture. In an airplane Captain George Hubert Wilkins will undertake next spring a direct passage from Point Barrow in Alaska over the Ice Pole to Spitzbergen?slightly less than 1,900 miles of Arctic. Vilhj�lmur Stefansson, veteran North rider, on whose last trip Captain Wilkins served as second in command, will devote himself to the details of preparation...
...simple! To honor Signor d'Annunzio and to commemorate his heroism at Fiume, the Italian Government has presented him with the battleship Puglia. High and dry upon his lawn, it is ever ready to fire a broadside in honor of Signor d'Annunzio's distinguished guests...