Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provocative threats the Dutch land an army. In his last stand the prince deliberately leads 2,000 men, women and children in a mass suicide against the Dutch guns. The men, armed only with swords, go down like tenpins. The women kill their children, then themselves. This invincible heroism, says Author Baum, taught the Dutch to rule the conquered Balinese with a loose rein. One thing the prudish Dutchmen did insist on: that the satiny brown-skinned Balinese women cover their beautiful breasts...
Captain Eaton was never properly rewarded for his heroism during his lifetime, died in iSn. a disappointed...
...youngest and ablest Episcopal bishops in the U. S. is Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, 45, of southern Ohio. A handsome, strapping man (6 ft. 4 in., 200 lb.), he was crew manager and Skull & Bones man at Yale (Class of 1914), won a Distinguished Service Cross for "extraordinary heroism" as a major in the World War, was chosen Bishop Coadjutor of southern Ohio in 1930 after holding an assistant rectorship in Waterbury, Conn., a rectorship in Worcester, Mass. In Cincinnati, his episcopal residence, Bishop Hobson joins in civic movements, collects paintings, holds services in small, old St. Paul...
...Second World War. "Onward Christian Soldiers" comes forth from them and the piano to mingle with the crash of bombs and the tinkle of glass in the sporadically lit-up darkness. But in with the searing cynicism of their rendition of the martial hymn, there is somehow a terrible heroism. And the theme of the play, if we may be allowed to extract it out of the molten swirl of observations on Communism, Fascism, the League of Nations, Germany, Italy, England, the Middle West, yea-man hot stuff, is that men, despite the foul mess they kick...
...City, Ill., Steeplejack Bert Bareiter looked down and saw that the wind had fouled his hoist rope around a guy wire 60 ft. below. He climbed down hand over hand to untangle the rope. At this point occurred a horrifying industrial accident, followed by a notable act of industrial heroism...