Word: heros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urchins. It occurred to one that he could probably climb to the top of the soft, statue in the park; he completed the feat amidst cheers from the youngsters and park idlers. Blearily, he plunked his white hat on the hatless marble head of Jose Marti, the No. 1 hero of Cuba's war for independence. Down below, his drunken shipmates casually relieved themselves among the flowerpots and hedges...
...Cobb, impressing Broadway with his depressing portrait of Willy, the hero of Death of a Salesman, was promoted to star billing, with his name on the marquee. Star Cobb, just back from five years of playing supporting roles in Hollywood, called it "the most rewarding experience of my professional life...
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, 92, hero of Verdun in World War I, and head of Vichy in World War II, now living out his days on the He d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, was due for a change. After giving him a routine checkup, his doctors urged his jailers to give him easier living conditions, and cut out all his strenuous menial duties (e.g., cleaning up his own room...
...trouble was, as the judge later said of Lieut. Commander Thomas Graeme Ridgeway, that "he might be brave in the face of the enemy, but he was not a hero when it came to facing a woman...
...best writers, has never gotten it." Yet the creation of George Apley (and perhaps the winning of the Pulitzer) made further truck with Mr. Moto distasteful to his creator. He went on writing about Moto, "but it gradually came over me that slick-magazine writing -where the hero slips on a banana peel and the heiress falls in love with him and they get married and go off to Monte Carlo-was baloney. It was very late and very slowly and largely in a spirit of revolt against this business that I began to write something different. In Apley...