Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after compartments were flooding, Lawrence Gainor braved a fiery arc, crawled between the melting, short-circuited cables, disconnected the switches, and so prevented fire which undoubtedly would have cut off more of the Squalus' crew from rescue. His performance, said his commander in his hearing last week, was "heroism beyond the call of duty...
...Heroism of four Freshmen saved a negro from death at the hands of attackers last Saturday night. Passing by the alley connecting Winter and Summer Streets at about five minutes after twelve on their way from the theatre to the subway station, George C. Cunningham '42, George M. Flanagan '42, Owen W. Kite '42, and Montgomery M. Smith '42 heard sounds of a scuffle and decided to investigate...
...read his latest poems, Vigils (1936), will be prepared for this serene counterpart in prose. To most other readers Siegfried Sassoon is still associated with 1) his realistic war trilogy (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, etc.) and his bitter war poems (CounterAttack, etc.); 2) his spectacularly murderous heroism in the trenches (in order, he once told Robert Graves, "to keep up the good reputation of the poets"); and 3) his equally spectacular pacifism, when in 1917 he threw his Military Cross into the sea, publicly denounced the "political errors and insincerities" of the British Government...
...Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead men, whose heroism he tries to embalm in lifelike verses. Sample (on Andrew Jackson's statue in Nashville...
Back in Manhattan last week Able Sea man Wyly, in the creased and scrubbed dungarees of his calling, diffidently owned up to his heroism, hastened off to bunk at the Sea men's Y. M. C. A. until the Uruguay was ready for another Good Neighbor errand...