Word: heroical
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Critic Grattan first cited the eulogies of Mr. Page: "The greatest and noblest American since Lincoln"; "The most heroic American of the War period"; "An intense patriot" (thus Charles W. Eliot, John W. Davis, Admiral Sims, Colonel House, Edward W. Bok, William H. Taft in an ad- dress to the Trustees of the Walter Hines Page School of Inter- national Relations); "A great citizen He gave his life...
...member of the class of 1918 at Yale, to which college he came after being graduated from Groton, he devoted himself after the opening of the European War to the formation of the Yale Naval Aviation Unit, which performed heroic service later both in matters of organization and of actual combat, and of which Ralph D. Paine had just completed a history before his death. Into this he poured enthusiasm, time and money. He built it up to a point of great usefulness and efficiency. Then, when he was taking his own flying tests at Huntington...
Rosamond Pinchot straddled a bicycle. Her white twill dress deserting her heroic limbs, her short hair a pennant in the Alpine winds, she dashed to the riding school for a rehearsal...
...Point) in 1878, specialized in staff work at the Ecole de Guerre. At the beginning of the War he was only a colonel, but his great military genius, first recognized by General Castelanu, rapidly won him merited recognition, promotion and honors. His greatest claim to fame rests upon the heroic defense of Verdun and his skillful handling of mutinous French troops in 1917. Possibly had there been no Pétain, France would, be paying Germany an indemnity...
...heroic days, now several centuries past, when two opposing armies debouched upon a field of battle, each advanced a herald to warn the other of its aims, the intentness of its purpose, the justice of its cause, the dire results to be expected if the other did not summarily yield and to hold forth the promise that all would be well if its demands were immediately complied with...