Word: heroical
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...behalf on the Commonwealth and of the City. And the graduation day picture was completed at the close of the second act, when Mr. Jewett in response to polite applause after his somewhat pompous speech, advanced to the footlights and proceeded to recite a great many lines of heroic verse after the "Roll-on-thou-deep-and-vast-blue-ocean-Roll" manner of the Elocution Class. Very luckily for the audience Mr. Francis Wilson bounced on to the stage a few moments later and in an absurdly serious speech, satirized the solemn bromides of the proceeding speakers so masterfully that...
...difference between the literature of today and that of the eighteenth century, which makes the similarity of this age and that of Pope nothing more than a one-sided resemblance. The neoclassical age was preeminently an age of form. Today the fashion runs to formlessness. Instead of the stately heroic couplet, poetry now flies to the freedom of vers libre. Instead of the terse, direct prose of Swift, satire now expresses itself in the genial lunacy of Donald Ogden Stewart or Ronald Fairbank...
...this irreverent age of the insubordinate younger generation, the heroic example of one Edda, daughter of Mussolini who would not stir her little toe without her father's consent, smells sweeter than garlic in this naughty world. To complete the incident of her temptation, picture now one Hispano-Suiza whining to be thrown into high gear, an overpoweringly handsome member of the Black Hand or perhaps the Black Shirt Club, and a glorious Italian moon, that is as glorious a moon as moons in Italy may be. But Edda was not seduced by the promise of a wild ride behind...
...terms of the Locarno treaties than in mixing up in the latest Balkan row, and the American press pursues the even tenor of its ways. Nowadays murders, assassinations and ultimate flying back and forth among the hot tempered members of the Balkan family remind one more of a mock-heroic farce or a travesty on the art of war, than a serious disturbance...
...young man who has most to do is a talker. He talks so much and so smoothly that he does not bother to work. The system suffices until he talks another man out of his fiancee and marries her himself. Then, in a heroic bit of utter implausibility in the last act, he talks himself into his rich uncle's favor. Apparently he is going to go through" life on the same principle. Not a bad idea, but is it practicable...