Word: heroical
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...ancestors disembarked from the Mayflower he met death following an operation for a tumor which had been removed 17 years ago and had regrown involving the bone of his skull. He was buried with full military honors at the Arlington National Cemetery alongside the graves of the "Rough Riders," heroic young fighters whom Theodore Roosevelt had asked him to command in the Cuban campaigns...
...Sandino offers me and the director of police safety and protection if we surrender. I refuse. "Sandino remains at the entrance of the city directing the movements of his troops. He sends a note to the heroic Major Hatfield, intimating that as he [Hatfield] has no water, he will eventually have to surrender. Hatfield replies: " 'Received your message, and say with or without water, a marine never surrenders. We remain here until we die or are captured...
Other heroes, more or less heroic, and their ghosts (as given by Mr. Schuyler) are, or were...
...villagers sit up, rub eyes. But whether it is a good show or a bad show or a peep show, the newspapers have certainly brought the art of ballyhoo to new heights of volume and penetration. Through it all, the hero of the occasion has been, appropriately, the most heroic aspect of it. Never has his tongue or his balance slipped, always has he been what kindly old ladies might call "a real nice boy." Anyone might have said, as Colonel Lindbergh said at the performance of Rio Rita: "I won't keep you long; you'd rather...
...would perform no great feat, arouse no great attention. But should he make, consecutively, 100,000 throws, 100,000 catches, he would become a famed person whom vaudeville patrons would lay down dimes, quarters, halves to see. For any action, no matter how trivial or inane, becomes a heroic achievement, if it is persisted in long enough to constitute some sort of record...