Word: heroical
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...Since midnight all weapons have been silent on all fronts . . . thus ending a heroic struggle that lasted almost six years. ... In the end the German Wehrmacht succumbed with honor to enormous superiority. . . . Every soldier . . . may lay aside his weapon proud and erect and set to work ... to safeguard the undying life of our people...
...somewhat strident boy, who early tried out the Fuhrerprinzip (leader principle) by bossing his schoolmates ("I became a little ringleader at that time"). One day he discovered an account of the Franco-Prussian War in two old popular magazines. "Before long that great heroic campaign had become my greatest spiritual experience...
...dazed Volksstürmer, the battle-shocked Wehrmacht regulars surrendered now in larger numbers. But the fanatics fought on. Perhaps they meant to fight from the deep basement of Hitler's chancellery, from behind the heroic statues of Prussians in the Tiergarten's Victory Avenue, from all around the 150-year-old Brandenburger Tor and its surmounting green-grey copper Quadriga of Victory. Defense Commissioner Joseph Goebbels screamed his final exhortations to stand and die, then, reportedly, fled. The Hamburg radio shrilled that Adolf Hitler himself had chosen to stay in his capital at the head...
...Earl of Gillenwater, who used to spend his time in drawing rooms, now is seen only as the heroic pilot of a Wellington or skipper of the Marlborough. The metamorphosis of Noel Coward left a big pair of shoes unfilled until Clive Brook stepped...
Practically Yours (Paramount) is the story of a heroic flyer (Fred MacMurray) who outlives his suicide-dive at a Japanese flattop; of an infatuated former officemate (Claudette Colbert) who gets the mistaken impression that he is in love with her; and of their efforts, during his two weeks' leave, to keep the public fooled for the public's own, hero-worshipping sake. Though it recalls the brilliant Hall the Conquering Hero, the picture is in many respects just the sort of smoothly routine, over-contrived comedy that Colbert and MacMurray team so crisply in. Yet its artificial flowers...