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...ancient that society could not recognize it, commanded silence. He took the blame, pretending to have liaisons of his own. When, furious at her failure to make him wince, she asked to return to his house, he admitted her without altering his expression. Thus her malice and his stoicism continued until they combined to drive her into a convent. The War took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parades* | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...that he is an old man, he is said to have frequently forbidden his sons to fight duels in defense of his honor. And it is expected that he will accept the recent triumph of Primo de Rivera with stoicism, retire, and rest content with the verdict of good or ill fame which History must pass upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Exit Weyler | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier.' " His idol is not Abraham Lincoln, who committed the gauchcrie of calling 75,000 men for three months to fight a war which took two and a half million men four years, but Washington, who "demanded for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treasury | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

Humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point with Pride: Apr. 6, 1925 | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

...news to hand that these unfortunates have received them. Another report states that the captives are having a "wonderful time"; the British think it is a " topping excursion "; the Yanks are doing " durned fine "; the Italians " facendo una festa"; the Japs and the Chinks, with their oriental stoicism, say nothing. Then a charge of tragedy is shot into the practical joke when it is announced that the captives are dying of hunger or exposure. On the whole, it seems that the captive foreigners are not likely to be badly treated now that the bandits have come to an agreement with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Celestial Banditry | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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