Word: heroisms
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...inscrutable, saturnine heroism of her husband began to move her, if not to love, at least to admiration. He took cholera. She knelt beside his contorted body, begging forgiveness. His lips opened. She bent to hear his last words. "The dog it was that died," he said in a blackening whisper...
Castigator Lewis, Slightly Relieved, Hammers Out a Heroism...
...Significance. Mr. Lewis once had a romantic twist (see Free Air, The Trail of the Hawk, The Job). Then discontent plagued him sore. He pickaxed through Main Street, spitted Babbitt. Now, slightly relieved but no whit satisfied, he hammers out a harsh heroism and lays it, hissing hot, to the flabby flank of Medicine. While he is thus occupied, his fancy is caught by a realist's dream of fair woman - wry little Leora. The satire is swift, sure, great in its age, and Leora, being of life, will outlive...
...well-known to need citation. The names of Trudeau, Bergoine, Becquerel, Muller, Macfayden, and hosts of this who have died in the service of humanity are too deeply engraved in the medical and scientific history of the world to fade with the passage of time. There is an impersonal heroism in such quiet sacrifice that endures while other more briefly startling varieties sink gently into oblivion...
...greatest character is himself, the artist struggling against the philosopher, the doer struggling with the dreamer. This is a book everyone should read. It is, in my humble opinion, a great piece of autobiographical writing. This was his conflict; this was his problem from the earliest days. He essayed heroism in the Spanish War, being of the stuff of his father, who dreamed dreams of heroism in the Civil War and spun tales of visualized if not actual valor. Then Anderson became a manufacturer. He owned a factory. In a factory, the soul is destroyed, but before destruction sets...