Word: heroical
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...priesthood. Peter Smith's "wonder," cited as a reason why the Catholic Church should make a saint of Mother Cabrini. last week helped advance her one step on the long road to canonization. In the Vatican, Pope Pius XI and his Congregation of Rites approved the "heroic virtues" of the energetic, well-born nun, directed that she be called "Venerable...
...With the steady growth of his influence, other paintings by him have been advanced until they now occupy a third of "the line," or tier of honor, in the gallery of the Louvre given to 19th Century French artists. To superficial moderns these big canvases, full of exotic or heroic action, may seem uncongenial, but they and the 1,500-page Journal have been deeply esteemed and studied by almost every serious French artist from Monte to Matisse. Readers of the Journal, distilled to 700 pages by Translator Pach, will have no difficulty in understanding...
Home Politics. To the U. S. public, China is symbolized by Confucius, Ming vases, heroic missionaries, clean shirts and Charlie Chan. Japan means harakiri, imperialism, post cards of Fujiyama, and the Yellow Peril. That Franklin Roosevelt had correctly gauged public psychology in giving a cue to all good citizens that the time had come when moral indignation need no longer be suppressed appeared from, the swift reaction to his speech. Europe naturally was pleased but the U. S. press also produced more words of approval, some enthusiastic and some tempered, than have greeted any Roosevelt step in many a month...
...column after column of Chinese soldiers slogging and sloshing forward. By Tuesday morning the offensive had yet to begin, and Chinese learned that the Premier had been obliged on Sunday to hand down sentences of death to officers guilty of "cowardice and military blunders" and "failure to offer heroic resistance." Two more "high Chinese Army officers" were announced to have been executed on Double-Ten, others "severely punished...
...Legionnaires were cavorting in Paris with much the same uproarious levity they loosed recently in New York. Since the French Government was paying their expenses, the fact that few of the hotels at which Legionnaires were at first lodged could claim to be even Fourth Class led to heroic eruptions of wrath. Typical ex-dough-boys and their good wives complained that 20 years after 1917 they were being asked to sleep in hotels some of whose other occupants were obviously daughters of joy. The Government blamed everything on a Paris travel agency which was said to have been paid...