Word: heroical
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...Carolyn Phillips Frevert, sister of Novelist Phillips. Named as her residuary legatee, with a bequest of $729,286, was a "tried and loyal friend," Isaac Frederick Marcosson, most famed Satevepost interviewer and writer. Writing at his best, Mr. Marcosson revives the memory of his friend in its most heroic proportions...
...hence as good as elected) was Democrat Richard Brevard ("Dick") Russell Jr., 34. bachelor Governor whose father is Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Defeated was Charles Robert Crisp, 61, long-time Representative whose late father was Speaker of the House 40 years ago. Representative Crisp, whose heroic efforts to balance the Federal Budget with the 1932 Revenue Act won him wide acclaim, was turned down partly on the charge that, friendly to the "Power Trust," he saddled the 3% electricity levy upon consumers. Nominee Russell, brightest of 13 brothers & sisters, proposes, as a sample of statesmanship, to collect...
Daniel Boone Jr., Kansas City insurance executive, great-great-grandson of the heroic frontiersman, was held up and robbed by a gunman whom he described as "very hard and very drunk...
...young Odin's adventures in a fairyland whose marches lie more in his own nature than in the Norwegian countryside. Though he is only a bastard Juviking, enough corpuscles of that great family's blood tingle in his veins to make them burn intermittently with mischievous, heroic, un earthly music...
...Mangada, the only officer present who refused to join Spain's Chief of Staff in shouting "Viva Espana!" (the last words uttered by King Alfonso XIII before he left Spain). Rebuked by the Chief of Staff in the presence of common soldiers for refusing to shout "Viva Espana!", heroic Lieut.-Colonel Mangada reached for his service pistol, was pounced upon and arrested...