Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognition. The papers play up their prowess. Individual players, little colleges, pop into the limelight overnight. And over all and through all blow the tart autumn breezes, whipping up the flames in the follage, and in the girls cheeks, and filling the heart of man with a desire for heroism. To go to college and play football has the same attraction now for the boys of this country that Hollywood has for the girls...
Last week King Boris of Bulgaria, consistently well press agented* monarch, performed an act of heroism. Motoring regally along the road which connects Sumen and Kaspican (Bulgaria) he saw a runaway team approaching, shouted to his chauffeur to stop...
This pathetic action is in the eyes of newspapermen one of the heights of nobility-a height to which all aspire if they should ever be thrust into a similar situation. For them, it ranks with the heroism of the telephone girl who sticks to her post in a fire, is parallel to,the devotion to duty of the old Roman who executed his own son for disobeying military commands...
...inscrutable, saturnine heroism of her husband began to move her, if not to love, at least to admiration. He took cholera. She knelt beside his contorted body, begging forgiveness. His lips opened. She bent to hear his last words. "The dog it was that died," he said in a blackening whisper...
...Significance. Mr. Lewis once had a romantic twist (see Free Air, The Trail of the Hawk, The Job). Then discontent plagued him sore. He pickaxed through Main Street, spitted Babbitt. Now, slightly relieved but no whit satisfied, he hammers out a harsh heroism and lays it, hissing hot, to the flabby flank of Medicine. While he is thus occupied, his fancy is caught by a realist's dream of fair woman - wry little Leora. The satire is swift, sure, great in its age, and Leora, being of life, will outlive...