Word: heroical
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...kindly support which was received in our struggle for independence developed into a permanent friendship, and it was the privilege of millions of young Americans to fight side by side with the heroic soldiers of France in defense of liberty. Thus was paid the debt of gratitude and, as you so rightly observe, both Governments should experience deep satisfaction in their solicitude that material debts shall also be discharged. Friendship based upon clear understanding must and will endure always...
...kindly support which was received in our struggle for independence developed into a permanent friendship, and it was the privilege of millions of young Americans to fight side by side with the heroic soldiers of France in defense of liberty. Thus was paid the debt of gratitude and, as you so rightly observe, both Governments should experience deep satisfaction in their solicitude that material debts shall also be discharged. Friendship based upon clear understanding must and will endure always...
...Boccaccio, Voltaire, Hans Christian and Sherwood Anderson, Merimee, De Maupassant, Chekov, James Joyce, Henry James, Jules Laforgue, Paul Morand. Before each story is a brief critical preface describing the influences that shaped each writer, the influences that each set in motion, the significance of each in the line of heroic descent...
...positive in spirit, like the prose of the 18th Century; the verse is negative, like the verse of the mid-17th Century poets whose inspiration was the English countryside rather than England. The main current of prose sweeps with the sweep of the times; its movement is, if not heroic, at least large; whereas verse slides, rebellious and cunning, against that heavier tide, like an eddy coiling back from a cataract. To find fault with contemporary lyricists because they make no attempt to reproduce on their melodious halmas, their tinkling clavichords, the surge and thunder of the Odyssey...
...destruction of the Louvain University in Belgium, particularly its magnicent Library-"that cradle of the finest religious and scientific thought from the earliest dawn of the Renaissance"-was part of the cost that heroic Belgium paid for opposing the Germans in 1914. It was out of admiration for Belgium's brave stand that Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, representing the people of the U. S., offered to rebuild and restock the Library...