Word: heroical
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...shocked his admirers, but those most frequently mentioned were his pronounced independence and the habit formed by some Ford dealers of referring to the Ford distribution system as the "Cowling System." Adaptable Bill Cowling, once president of Ford-owned Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R., was never paid the heroic salary popularly supposed. Henry Ford's sales manager got $35,000 per year and even the bonus in good years seldom brought it close to six figures...
...good account of how The Art of Thinking, rejected by Harper, Harcourt Brace, Macmillan, Scribner, became a best-seller (total sales: more than 400,000 copies); 2) some shrewd observations on U. S. women, embedded in praise too fulsome to be called flattery; 3) an account of a heroic career as a lecturer that once carried the abbe through 39 lectures in less than 80 days; 4) a general picture of a benign, well-wishing, patriotic character who knows that in the war between good and evil, the thought of the "suffering endured at any minute by millions...
...Belgians and its rich jungle Congo empire, even the worst Cabinet crisis is almost never cause for alarm. Reason: the extraordinary prestige and stabilizing ability of the Throne. Its power is a legacy from that masterly European schemer Leopold II, who died in 1909, and from his heroic successor, Belgium's Wartime King Albert. Fortunately, the throne next came to young King Leopold III, today easily the outstanding European crowned head in strength of mind and leadership. Last week His Majesty, having presided for some days over the vain efforts of Belgian politicians to find a successor for able...
Precise, neat Actor Arliss was Mrs. Patrick Campbell's leading man in 1901, has since assumed well-bred heroic proportions in the cinema. His next role may be a screen portrait of the late John D. Rockefeller. His well-wishers, meanwhile, are urging a fitting cinememorial, The Life of George Arliss, with Mr. Paul Muni...
...very simple-minded, but none the less effective what with its thick coat of humor and its exuberant heroic pair, who find life "so beautiful...