Word: heroical
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Proudly the new president called the roll of his college's famed sons- Thomas Jefferson, Peyton and Edmund Randolph, John Marshall, James Monroe, John Tyler. Graciously he placed his guest in the heroic line. His address finished, President Bryan turned to confer the degree of Doctor of Laws on Franklin D. Roosevelt, "restorer of hope to a desperate people . . . imaginative employer of scholarship as the servant of the State." After compliments to President Bryan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Thomas Jefferson...
...best picture at the International Motion Picture Exposition in Venice (TIME, Sept. 24), Man of Aran was exhibited to U. S. audiences for the first time last week. Critics were quick to appreciate its superb pictorial qualities, the honest artistry with which Director Flaherty photographed his characters as heroic dwarfs against the dark, enormous background of a hungry land and a mighty sea. Audiences were equally quick to feel that somehow, in the absence of dramatic line, Man of Aran missed the essence of its subject...
...clock last night, with a mob of about twenty Freshmen gathering to cheer and later to yell 'Rinehart." While Yard cops searched nooks and crannies of the Yard for the missing Colonel, the riot grew to Gargantuan proportions, practically doubling its original number of recruits. Only heroic action by the Yard's defenders broke the back of the rebellion...
...face contorted with rage, he paddled the harder, but in vain, and on seeing himself nearing the shore, he leaped overboard with a shrill cry of despair and began to swim away. Though his efforts were heroic, his progress was practically nil, and some thirty seconds later he was rapidly overhauled by a long arm, which ignominiously lifted and deposited him in the bottom of the boat, defeated, but not discouraged, thwarted, but not downhearted, but very, very...
...against the sublime grandeur of the Dolomites, this simple folk-tale becomes a motion picture of heroic proportions. Every scene is beautifully photographed, yet without obvious pretension. The roles are competently handled by Fraulein Riefenstahl, who plays the mountain girl, and a group of native Tyroleans. There is so little dialogue as to obviate any necessity for familiarity with German or Italian. "The Blue Light" is a truly distinguished and unusual film and one that would provide a refreshing evening to any picturegoer...