Word: heroical
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...Most heroic gesture of the week was made in regard to taxes. Always one jump ahead of his opponents, President Roosevelt foresaw months ago that Republicans would campaign against him for his heavy deficits. In his January budget message he made his defense, drew an encouraging picture of a 1937 deficit of only half a billion dollars, smallest of the Depression. That picture was possible because he postponed estimating the amounts needed for Relief, took no notice of the Bonus Bill that Congress was about to pass, and did not anticipate the unconstitutionally of AAA processing taxes...
...gallant Colonel deliberately palmed himself off on the assassins as the Premier so that they might kill him and take their departure, his heroic sacrifice was in the normal tradition of the Japanese Samurai who inherits the fanatical feudal duty of dying willingly in case of need to save his superior. It was not clear this week, and it may never be clear, exactly how this most amazing mistaken-identity-murder occurred, but it did become clear that Premier Okada secreted himself first in a steel cabinet and later among kitchen wenches...
...earth so far" and that "the theatre is essentially a cathedral of the spirit" and whatever one's opinion of these postulates may be, it must be admitted that they are noble concepts. In predicating his "Winterset" upon these premises Mr. Anderson has set himself a task of heroic proportions. He has attempted to build a play of fundamentally modern themes and modern personages upon the foundation of epic structure and to articulate these characters through the trying medium of verse. To an extent he has succeeded and "Winterset" is clearly among the most compelling and powerful dramatic studies...
...cross-section plan for the Houses has been tried and proved--a failure. Stubborn facts are jutting out of an atmosphere long wrapped in mystery. Many men leave their Houses voluntarily because they find them no more attractive than boarding-houses, and equally devoid of friends. Despite heroic efforts, the Committee which governs the placing of Freshmen has found it impossible to dam up entirely a natural and preferable course of events. A few of the Houses are emerging with definite personalities. They collect scholars, or athletes, they give characteristic plays and have their own distinctive inner societies. These...
Title-story of Kay Boyle's The White Horses of Vienna won the 1935 0. Henry Short Story Award, shows how geography alters cases. Author Boyle's heroic hero is a Nazi, but in Austria. Critics of Kay Boyle think she takes a perverse, malicious interest in abnormal people, and most of the denizens of her back yard are indeed a queer lot. Most normal seem blood relations to characters out of D. H. Lawrence or Katherine Mansfield. Her stories are glimpses of people rather than peep shows of action, and often do not "make sense." Yet even...