Word: heroical
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...gotten through eleven billion francs of new taxation by a Chamber vote of 324 to 110 (TIME, August 9) which the Senate confirmed last week, 250 to 13, M. Poincaré seized his opportunity to ride roughshod, informed the Deputies that they must now pass without amendments two more heroic measures of fiscal reform...
Weak, fainting, the Archbishop was all but carried from his cathedral on the first day of his heroic labors, having performed over 3,000 baptisms...
...black, circular object. A ring. Spattered on his shoes lay the reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers who had defied an exploding arsenal with water buckets. Little metal knicknacks were pondered on with shrugging shoulders. Unidentified. Meanwhile, other Navy committees investigate...
Sculptor James E. Fraser will make the statues; Edwin H. Blashifield is working on the murals; Egerton Swartout of Manhattan was the architect, a designer of trite but heroic fancy and considerable resource. He built the Missouri State Capitol, the Victory Memorial in Washington, the Mary Baker Eddy Memorial in Boston, the Post Office and Court House in Denver, the Municipal Auditorium at Macon, Ga., and similar edifices...
Prideful as a pouter pigeon, Gabriele d' Annunzio, spoiled heroic darling of all Italy, announced last week that "cherry elixir," a liqueur invented and concocted by himself, has been pronounced "most excellent" by the Sanctissimus Pater, Pius XI (Achille Ratti...