Word: heroical
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Because the State of Pennsylvania refused to pay on time for a series of heroic statues Barnard had designed for the Harrisburg Capitol, he took a bicycle trip through southern France, assembled an extraordinary collection of medieval sculpture. Selling most of it to dealers, he made enough to keep his 15 workmen employed in his huge studio near Paris. With what he did not sell, he started the finest private collection of Gothic and Romanesque sculpture in the U. S. This he placed in a private museum next to his studio in upper Manhattan, opened to the public. Later John...
...fulfilling a sacred legacy by transferring to this new pursuit squadron the name and tradition of the glorious Richthofen Escadrille of which I was the last commander. The example of your immortal and heroic son will inspire all officers and soldiers of the revived German Air Army to the highest daring and sacrifice...
Prayers for those that go down to the sea in ships will be offered tomorrow on the Newell float, and all shells will carry an image of Saint Christopher, it was learned late last night. These heroic measures seem necessary to obviate further fatalities in the dangerous sport of rowing--the last two days have provided a severe warning...
...Olive Fremstad's impersonation was abundant with feeling but often uncontrolled. Johanna Gadski sang so long past her prime that her first excellent performances grew dim in memory. The current outstanding Brünnhildes are Frida Leider and Gertrude Kappel. Both give the rôle its true heroic proportions but their voices are no longer young...
...tour de force. A network of subsidiary plots-the sad misadventure of Jones's maiden aunt when she meets Killer Mannion; Mannion's astute revenge on a rival gangster who mistakes him for Jones-are brilliantly used to make the doings of little Jones the more strange, heroic, touching and preposterous. In his dual rôle, as Jones and Mannion, Edward G. Robinson gives his best performance since Little Caesar. Good shot: the mean, mysterious little man (Donald Meek) who first tells the police to arrest Jones, trying to collect the reward for capturing Mannion...