Word: heroical
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Poor lad, he got his news-story back with a D--, inscribed, "This is the worst pretense at news-writing I have ever seen. No newspaper editor would even look at it." At a conference later this authoritarian view was amplified, the more so because the sophomore kept an heroic silence...
...conglomeration of Christians and Nordic pagans," he declared. "We must learn to view Christ in the German fashion," This fashion the Reichsbischof did not define. It vibrated last week between non-Nazi and Nazi overemphasis respectively on the passive concept of Gentle Jesus and the active concept of an Heroic Christ. Reichsbischof Müller vibrated too. First he appointed three good Nazis to his new "Spiritual Cabinet." But their first act was to forbid governing officers of the Church to belong to any "church political parties, leagues, groups or movements.'' The Reichsbischof himself promptly resigned as "protector...
...impressive. Many a reader of this collection will agree with its editor that its author "possessed his measure of faults, and was pent in by even more limitations than usually afflict the race of politicians. But he had a soul that in its simple and unpretending fashion was truly heroic, and to touch his garment is to receive virtue...
...must demand a return to the heroic conception of Jesus," clarioned Dr. Krause, "not as a God enthroned to be conceived dogmatically, but as a fearless fighter and leader."* The meeting enthusiastically adopted a resolution supporting Dr. Krause's reforms...
...fired his pistol several times, accidentally wounding a woman and child. In Madrid a pack of Socialists shouting "Kill the traitor!" chased for blocks a man who had cried "Long live the King!" He finally escaped into the Ministry of Public Works where he was arrested. At Gallarta one heroic priest, though shot in the abdomen by a Socialist poll watcher, insisted on being carried to the voting urn to ballot before being rushed to a hospital by his parishioners...