Word: heroical
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...been chief executive of Wake Forest (N. C.) College for the last three years. President Gaines was likewise getting used to W. & L. and its 181-year traditions. Not far from his new house lie the bones of Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee, Princetonian, Revolutionist, and his heroic son Robert E. Lee (W. & L.'s eighth president), and his grandson George Washington Custis Lee (W. & L.'s ninth president...
...thought of what is coming his nature is made clear. There is Pollack who goes crazy and is shot. There is the ensign in command, a little fellow just out of Annapolis, with a pathetic courage and a dormitory sense of duty, who faces death by recalling the heroic memory of John Paul Jones. Cobb likes girls and Costello likes liquor and the radio operator is a sarcastic fellow. In the effort to keep sane under terrible pressure some minds infect themselves deliberately with tiny manias. One sailor hangs onto a Chinese vase-he wants to save that-and another...
Every child in Serbia (now Jugoslavia) knows that Ferdinand Gavrillo Princip is the name of the young man from the province of Bosnia who, on June 28, 1914, assassinated the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, and thus kindled the World War. Last week an heroic statue in honor of the late Princip was carted into ominous Serajevo. Patriots made ready for the formal unveiling next week. Excited little girls wove wreaths and little boys practiced piping songs to honor the Great Assassin...
...Princip, surmounting his name with laurel wreaths. Protests from abroad caused the Jugoslavian Government to order the Princip tablet covered with a thin layer of plaster, the official position being that it has been obliterated, while the populace consider that the Government is pretty slick. But the new heroic statue would seem to be definitive, a proclamation to the world in marble that the end can justify the means, that the most dastardly of crimes can become a spotless deed...
Hiram of Tyre. At Jebeil, Phoenicia, industrious Germans unearthed a statue of heroic proportions. After much learned controversy, the diggers agreed that the statue must be that of King Hiram I of Tyre, who reigned as a contemporary of Solomon, 480 years after Moses had led the children of Israel from the wilderness and a diet of manna. King Hiram was something of an entrepreneur for his time: Solomon needed aid for the building of his temple, the mighty House of the Lord; Hiram had certain supplies and many artisans. They bargained. The outcome was that Hiram sent Solomon hewed...