Word: heroical
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...minded men?is the greatest discoverer of political mud in this generation. This will be all?unless Mr. Fall or Mr. Sinclair or Mr. Doheny goes to jail. If one of them serves a jail sentence, then that finely molded head of Senator Walsh becomes much more?it becomes heroic, the chiseled likeness of a patriot, vigilant, unforgetting, bold...
...Catt, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. Maud Wood Park. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton?they were there. The Vice Presidents of the Republican and Democratic National Committees (Mrs. Hert and Mrs. Blair respectively)?they were there. Nonagenarian Mrs. Hester M. Poole of New Hampshire?she, the eldest, was there. Heroic memories of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Anna Howard Shaw?they were there...
...tight, uncommonly tight, which is a shocking reversal of the proper order, 1928, however, will have no conscientious scruple for parsimony. Forty-two percent of the seniors never drink, and it is rumored that this year the funds, instead of being used for a senior picnic, will purchase two heroic statues for the steps of Widener Rodin's 'Le Penseur,' representing Concentration and one of G. K. Chesterton, symbolic of Distribution. Surely the freshmen must contribute generously to such a cause...
Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, resounded with brisk ditties, martial songs and heroic operas. Fourteen glee clubs sang one after another. They represented Columbia, Penn State, Middlebury, Harvard, Princeton, Missouri, Dartmouth, Syracuse, Fordham, New York, Wisconsin, Yale, Amherst, Wesleyan universities and colleges...
...Coolidge's partisans set up one screen on which they paint his portrait in heroic lines, bold, strong, silent. His antagonists set up another screen on which they limn him as futile, vacillating, insignificant. What of the truth is not hidden by one screen is completely masked by the other...