Word: heros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts are that Chuck was born in a big white house a few miles from Hamlin, W. Va. (pop. 850). His father, A. Hal Yeager, is a prosperous contract gas-well driller. Chuck is a hero to Hamlin, but the townspeople love him with special fervor because he refuses to act like a hero. Says Louie Hoff, music instructor for Lincoln County schools: "He isn't the biggety type. He's still the same nice kid." Mrs. Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when...
...heel. Based on a hard-bitten short story by the late Ring Lardner, it is a brilliant example of the kind of punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece of humanity as Hollywood has ever treated at length...
Some such emotion has crept into the work of most biographers of Horatio Nelson, England's No. 1 naval hero. Even the U.S.'s precise, levelheaded Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan allowed the legend of Nelson to skew up the accuracy of his portrait. British Admiral Sir W. M. James (who spent 18 months during World...
...serious illness, and it made him a self-centered hypochondriac; his letters swarmed with such remarks as: "I ... venture to say [that] a very short space of time will send me to that bourne from which none return . . ." To most of his seamen he was the kindest, gentlest hero imaginable; to his Sea Lords he was exasperatingly 'vindictive, suspicious and intolerant. He was as alarmingly unstable as a prima donna-until the moment he marched to the center of the stage and put on a priceless performance. The Nelson touch, says Admiral James, consisted of more than unorthodox audacities...
...feet away in the rigging of the Redoubtable, shot him in the spine. Of the mass of tributes to Nelson, two stand out. One is that of a dying Trafalgar enemy, Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other is from Sir William Hamilton-that "strange man" who, by all the rules, should have been Nelson's worst enemy, but who wrote instead: "God bless him, and shame fall on those who do not say amen...