Word: heroical
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...oldest friends were deploring the evident, consuming degree of ambition as almost indecent. Such ambition is the mainspring of most political candidacies. Certainly no man without it could have become the third Democratic President since the Civil War. Translated from ambition to realization, the "indecent" passion becomes heroic...
China's heroic eigth Route Army on its desperate and hopeless defense of Shanghai (TIME, March 14 et ante), was contributed not by the Government but by terror-stricken Shanghai bankers and merchants and patriotic Chinese abroad-a clear budgetary saving of $12,000,000. As Dr. Soong said stubbornly, three months after the Shanghai Incident: "At present the most important thing for China is to restore her financial stability. We must go on living within our income for a year. We have done it for five months. The Chinese financial situation is better now than that...
Having lived chiefly in France since 1890, he sailed at last in December 1928, for Brazil. His return was an heroic but tragic event. The official plane Alberto Santos-Dumont flew forth to greet the hero apropos, fell into a tailspin, drowned all 14 greeters. Alberto Santos-Dumont never recovered from the shock...
...Erskine admirers may solace themselves by reflecting that although Anatole France would have done them better, many a Cabellian would have done them worse. In adapting the Tristan legend to his scheme, Author Erskine has of course ousted Tristan from the hero's place, made minor Palamede the heroic figure. Palamede was a Saracen who fell in love with the ideas of chivalry as related to him by one of his father's Christian slaves. The bit about adoring women particularly appealed to Palamede. He deviled his father for permission to travel among the Franks, find an object...
...better name for his latest hero than Richard Roe. The name, with other Roe-ish actions and qualities, will irresistibly remind many a reader who has seen the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Of Thee I Sing of that forgotten man, Alexander Throttlebottom. Author Morley has not tried to make his hero heroic but he has certainly not intended to go to the other extreme and make him vicepresidential...