Word: valorized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese machine gun fire. Not in Shanghai but in London an English lay preacher started a movement to enlist Occidentals willing to go to Shanghai and heroically interpose themselves between the fighting Orientals until enough Occidentals had been killed to produce peace. His Majesty King George has decorated for valor on the Western Front an officer who was promoted until he became Brigadier-General Frank Percy Crozier, retired.* Last week in London the first distinguished Occidental to volunteer to give his life at Shanghai for Peace was General Crozier...
...East" is the password of German spies operating in England, who answer when they hear it "Forward and Back." At the root of it all is the master spy, Erich Von Stroheim, whose allegiance to his Vaterland is not adulterated when the King of the Belgians decorates him for valor. The story is highly theatrical but, in view of what is known of the actualities of international espionage during the War, not excessively romanticized. It is good entertainment, smoothly built and wonderfully acted by Von Stroheim and Constance Bennett who make it convincing in spite of such occasional absurdities...
Beaten at every turn, Senator Hiram Johnson, No. 1 Treaty opponent, refused to surrender. He saw his little band of followers subside in silent discouragement. His own voice went hoarse with overtalk-ing, but he lost none of his valor. Cried he: "I ask no quarter. I know no way to fight for my country except to die for it. ... I will present, god willing, as long as I am able, the inequities and iniquities of this Treaty. I'm going to bat just as hard as I can. Go on with your majority! Put on your cloture...
...fencing tournament held in Vienna as part of the Emperor Franz Joseph's Jubilee. When he was 17, he was unbeatable. He has won five Olympic championships. During the War he served as captain in the Italian cavalry. The king gave him the Blue Ribbon of the valor medal and made him a Knight. He was an amateur until 1920 when the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires offered him more than $1,000 a month to teach fencing to its members and their sons. After three years he left Buenos Aires because he was bored there. For exhibitions...