Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question, however, whether flippance is a useful or even legitimate device in such discussion. ... Its effect is as misleading and distorting of public conscience as direct misrepresentation." U. S. newspapers make crime romantic, glamorous. President Hoover suggested that they might "invest with a little more romance and heroism those thousands of our officers who are endeavoring to enforce the law. . . ." He also added, before taking train back to Washington: "I have no criticism to make of the American Press. I admire its independence and courage." ¶ Struggling into his winter overcoat, President Hoover last week went out and inaugurated Washington...
Again the press whooped for heroism but the hero and all other airmen knew that he had merely taken the cure prescribed by the U. S. Army Air Service-that a pilot who has cracked-up must make another flight at the first possible moment, to restore self-confidence. There was no need, however, for Miss Morrow to take the cure-except to be sporting and to do aviation a great and good turn...
...with interest on every page. Through the electric blaze of night and the white light of day the Literary Digest stands close to the flaming forge of life, and out of the glowing heat of a world's mighty labors and strivings-its thrilling adventures and achievements, its heroism, its drama, and its passionate discussions-it brings you, week by week, each burning deed and thought...
...Crack Reporter Owen of the Byrd Expedition this seemed more than an exciting episode. He wrote it up for the civilized world as a spectacular Heroism, with the following ingredients...
...ending stripped of grandiloquence. Struggling to get out of Siberia, the two comrades (there are only three people in the cast) thirst in a desert composed obviously of flour, shavings, and papier-mâché; their thirst, however, is real, their momentary, flaring hatreds, their gestures toward heroism, renunciation, their final acceptance of themselves, all these are real, surviving buoyantly the inadequacies of mechanics. Director Joe May, Actor Lars Hanson, maintain the fact, recently put to question by shoddy productions, that Hollywood may have bought most of the talent of the UFA company but has not yet bought...