Word: heroical
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...complicated plot includes a tender romance between a handsome lord and an innocent miller's daughter, a doubtful marriage, a father's curse, a self-sacrificing lover, an heroic halfwit, and-a happy ending. Flitting in and out of the story is Pittances Green, clown extraordinary, whose puns and drolleries, no less than his outlandish costumes, lighten the play tremendously. The versatile Phillip Bourneuf plays the part to perfection...
Though Harvard is the logical climax of the novel it is by no means the only peak. For, after all, who at Harvard is ordinary and does ordinary things? Her scholars devote their lives to great things, at any rate to recording and commenting upon them, in an heroic endeavor to persuade greatness to yield its secret. And the point of Hoffman's novel is that life can be led without greatness, for life contains enough besides to be always interesting and intense. There is pathos, as the story, of the old Grandmother shows; there is evil, as the story...
...seventh grade) while his seven-year-old sister Svetlana is in the first grade (U. S. second). They go to school, not in a Government limousine, but as their mother used to travel, in Moscow's overcrowded tramcars. In the main floor corridor they daily see an heroic picture of their great father but they get no special privileges at School...
...UNDER MEDICINE SEPT. 25 ISSUE WRITEUP REGARDING KELSER INADEQUATE TO DO JUSTICE. AS MAJOR ARMY VETERINARY CORPS RECENTLY COMPLETED IN ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE BRILLIANTLY CONCLUSIVE RESEARCH ON ENCEPHALOMYELITIS AFFECTING HORSES. WAS LAUDED IN 1927 BY GOVERNOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD AND SURGEON GENERAL IRELAND FOR HEROIC VETERINARY SERVICE IN PHILIPPINES WHERE HIS RESEARCHES BROUGHT ABOUT CONTROL OF RINDERPEST EPIZOOTIC LYMPHANGITIS AND SURGEON GENERAL IRELAND OFFICIALLY REFERRED TO THIS SERVICE AS EPOCH MAKING. VETERINARY PROFESSION IS PROUD OF MAJOR KELSER...
...veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely to balk. Warning that if France wants to avoid inflation, the Frenchman's nightmare, she must make heroic sacrifices, M. Germain-Martin said...