Word: heroical
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...first soaking his clothes and bandages in gasoline, would hug a bomb to his breast with his one remaining arm and run as fast as he could to hurl himself & bomb against the Japanese. Not many "human bombs" reached their mark. Most blew up and burned up as the heroic Chinese ran into the leaden teeth of Japanese machine gun fire. Not in Shanghai but in London an English lay preacher started a movement to enlist Occidentals willing to go to Shanghai and heroically interpose themselves between the fighting Orientals until enough Occidentals had been killed to produce peace...
...Great days. The Vagabond often wishes that he could have shared in the tension and dynamic optimism which swept Europe like a flame in those two glorious years of revolution. The world made heroic gestures which were to crumple at the touch of steel, but the story of Rome and of Vienna, of Budapest, and Paris, was written too well to be obliterated under the returning tide of military autocracy. A Hapsburg was still on the throne of his conglomerate empire, a Bourbon swaggered in Naples, and a saddened Pope told his beads once again in the Vatican, but despotism...
What else is left for the Sophomore President, the Junior President, the Senior President, and all their co-incumbents to do? I think this is an excellent time to abolish an outgrown sinecure. Henceforth let us bouquet our friends, not with ballots, but with the Heroic Couplet and the Shakespearian Sonnet if need be! Eugene Du Bois...
China's "Verdun," (with which Father Jacquinot had nothing to do), consisted last week of the heroic defense of the Woosung Forts, 16 miles from Shanghai proper. But there were altogether too many mysteries in connection with China's "Verdun"'?Oriental mysteries...
With his daughter, Lieut.-Colonel Bell rushed into the smoking, crumbling ruins of ''No Man's Land" (the Chinese Chapei District) and in rushed Father Jacquinot with 13 nuns. Other good people offered their help. By heroic efforts, working against time (four hours) they evacuated scores of wounded men and women, piling them hastily into six motor ambulances...