Word: heroisms
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Observers recalled that Germany has no "unknown soldier"; remarked that it is apparently in-tended to raise up the shade of Baron von Richthofen as a titanic figure epitomizing German War-heroism...
...fathered an expedition that has contributed scientific knowledge to the world." He particularized: experience with radio and solar compasses, data on flying conditions in frigid air and over snow-covered terrain. He warmly complimented the men under him on their courage and discipline, citing Mechanic Bennett's heroism in climbing out on a wing to prevent a cold-clogged oil tank from bursting, the joint feat of changing three 900-lb. Liberty motors with improvised equipment, and the readiness of all the men to fly over Ellesmere Land "where a forced landing meant 'curtains' [i. e. dropped...
...recognition. The papers play up their prowess. Individual players, little colleges, pop into the limelight overnight. And over all and through all blow the tart autumn breezes, whipping up the flames in the follage, and in the girls cheeks, and filling the heart of man with a desire for heroism. To go to college and play football has the same attraction now for the boys of this country that Hollywood has for the girls...
Last week King Boris of Bulgaria, consistently well press agented* monarch, performed an act of heroism. Motoring regally along the road which connects Sumen and Kaspican (Bulgaria) he saw a runaway team approaching, shouted to his chauffeur to stop...
This pathetic action is in the eyes of newspapermen one of the heights of nobility-a height to which all aspire if they should ever be thrust into a similar situation. For them, it ranks with the heroism of the telephone girl who sticks to her post in a fire, is parallel to,the devotion to duty of the old Roman who executed his own son for disobeying military commands...