Word: heroical
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...jayvee race brought the only Harvard victory, and proved small consolation at that, for Cornell's No. 6 oar snapped at the button over half a mile from the finish. The Ithacans continued pounding away with an heroic beat and clung closely tot he heavy Harvard crew whose shell was noticeably lower in the waves than either, Tech or Cornell. In the final sprint Cornell could not keep up but the prow of the Tech boat riding high and clear, shot forward past amidships of the sinking Crimson shell and nearly snatched the victory from the Harvard eight...
...today. The jeunesse Doré was lightly employed in drawing for Parisian magazines, notably Journal pour Rire. But Doré, an excellent draughtsman, had his serious moments. In the France where he lived (1832-83), Satanism was in the air. There was Baudelaire, whose hero was Milton's heroic Satan, and there was Huysmans who had studied the Black Mass. It was fashionable to wear black clothes and look mysterious. Doré, too, turned to Satan, but objectively. He illustrated Dante's Inferno in 1861, the Bible and Paradise Lost in 1866. Throughout France, and then throughout...
...Negro Post Office porter who last fortnight "discovered" a harmless-hissing "bomb" addressed to New York's Governor Roosevelt, a confession that he (Callegy) had made and sent it himself. Reason: his $1,600-per-year postal job was monotonous, not lucrative. He thought if he did something "heroic" he would be promoted. Would-be-hero Callegy was hospitalized for mental observation...
RABELAIS-Anatole France-Holt ($5). THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS, AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND His SON PANTA-GRUEL-trans, from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. In one volume.-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences...
...hear light steps on the porch, the creak of the front door which Madame La Maréchale had accidentally left unlocked, or stealthy footfalls which soon indicated that someone was prowling all over the house. Surely it could be no sneakthief. Who would steal from lovable, heroic "Papa" Joffre, who saved Paris at the Battle of the Marne...