Word: heroical
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Americans may think of Washington freezing at Valley Forge, of Patrick Henry demanding liberty or death, but they never catch Benjamin Franklin in such heroic poses. Instead, the old Philadelphian goes beaming and nodding through history, saying chuckling things to pretty girls, advising young men to save their money and get up early in the morning. Whether he is denouncing the King, flying his kites or delivering himself of his flawless platitudes, he is self-confident, unselfconscious, comfortable, good-natured insatiably curious...
...world this week, Czechoslovakia was a heroic nation. Its President Eduard Benes not only proved himself heroic, but was hailed with even more reason than at any time during the last 20 years as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman." After Dr. Benes received the British and French demand that he yield to Germany most of the Sudeten territory of Czechoslovakia, it was smart to keep the Great Powers waiting nervously for 30 hours last week while in Prague the President and Premier Milan Hodza labored with legal experts, finally produced not a note of capitulation but a suave reply...
...this mixed force of many tongues was attributed several heroic defenses. The brigades' arrival at Madrid in November 1936 and their stubborn resistance in the Casa del Campo outside Madrid, probably gave Leftist General José Miaja enough time to organize his defenses to prevent the city's capture by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. They appeared later in the successful halt of the Rightist Jarama River drive and in the panicky rout of Italian Fascist troops in the Battle of Brihuega, on the Guadalajara Road...
...Only a heroic dose will result in death, and when death does occur it is usually due to overstimulation of the thyroid...
...heroic King Albert had faced the Germans alone, suddenly deserted by the Great Powers as was Czechoslovakia this week, even the redoubtable Belgian Sovereign might have shown less courage, resourcefulness and firmness than did President Eduard Benes last week. Astonished Prague learned on Wednesday evening from press wires that Neville Chamberlain would fly on Thursday morning to Berchtesgaden, bitterly observed that the violent Sudeten German riots which broke out on Monday night, directly after Hitler's Nürnberg speech, had been quelled by police and gendarmes so effectively that at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday orders went...