Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost as if Greta Garbo were suddenly to break into "Shuffle Off to Buffalo." Good shot : Shirley's mean playmate, brilliantly impersonated by 8-year-old Jane Withers, showing her the game of trainwreck. The Band Plays On (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Copiously seasoned with false sentiment and meretricious heroism, this dish of college, football & young love presents four young hoodlums turned from careers of crime by a kindly coach. As the "Four Bombers" they are supposed to be the greatest backfield in the U. S. The clowning of Leo Carrillo and Ted Healy. each of whom sets fire...
Nevertheless, Paris remained. The futility of its resistance simply emphasizes the heroism of the defenders. For four months the city underwent a continual bombardment. Thiers and Gambetta, balloon ascensions across the Prussian lines, the relief army from the South, the National Guard, and the final triumphal entry of the besiegers, followed by the proclamation in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles of the German Empire--the whole is a fantasy worthy of the Arabian Nights, with a note of tragedy added...
...history of the seven seas shocked the civilized world. The S.S. Titanic . . . struck a monster iceberg. The tragedy chilled our blood and stirred our hearts. Twenty-two hundred and eight human souls were on board; 1,501 were lost. . . . The great Captain E. J. Smith, as befits the heroism of the sea, stuck to the finish and went down with the ship. . . . His refusing to [save himself] gave even death a redeeming feature...
...youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device Excelsior!" kept climbing until finally he fainted and died of heart failure. This exploit, according to the editor of Milizia Fascista last week, typifies the "will to win" so lacking in pre-Fascist Italians. "The heroism of Di Valero," exulted the official militia organ, "is the supreme gesture of a Black Shirt who, facing the alternative of failing in duty or dying, accepted without an instant's hesitation the choice of death...
...favorite topic. When, however, a hurricane comes up, tearing No. 167 loose from her moorings, casting her adrift amid mountainous seas, there is no time for talk. Whether she makes port or not is not told. It is sufficient that the tale ends in a burst of action and heroism...