Word: valor
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...armed forces that "freedom, to be retained, must be restrained" is one of the prime jobs of an Army minister, according to Chaplain (Maj.) William E. Patrick, holder of the Distinguished Service Cross, and former National Chaplain for the American Legion, and the Army and Navy Legion of Valor...
...Widow Bainter takes refuge in dignified solitude with the Clivedenish family doctor (Miles Mander) and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, but the boardinghouse brogue of her son-in-law's Irish mother (Sara Allgood), her daughter's expected baby, her son's citation for valor flank her personal Maginot Line. Before she can say OCD, she finds herself boss of the bandage brigade...
...kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note, of which the most vibrant tone is Mrs. Hadley's remark after reading President Roosevelt's letter about her son's valor. "Oh, to think," quavers Mrs. Hadley, licked indeed, "of his finding time to write to me, with all the things...
...people can see for themselves this week how the tide of battle was turned in mid-Pacific on three hot and sunlit days early last June. From the Navy came pictures* of the Battle of Midway, pictures that show destruction and death, courage and valor...
Lost Umbrellas. Buttressing the keen military insight of France, of course, was the dogged valor of Britain. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who had just refused to lend his umbrella to a London exhibition of notable walking sticks, did public penance for the appeasements of his past. To Parliament he stated: "Everything I had worked for, hoped for and believed in during my public life has cracked into ruins. There is only one thing left for me, and that is to devote what strength and power I have to forwarding the victory...