Word: heroical
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...rolled stocking, a self-appointed censor of the beaches--who knows? That in the face of this sinister warning of a fell future purpose the Princeton men bravely declared that such trousers as theirs "were the thing among college men" is a theme for epic and song. May their heroic action not go unrecognized...
...indicated, for time and again the brilliant work of Leonard in the Dartmouth net staved off attacks by the University forward line which seemed certain to result in a score. There were also numerous scrimmages in front of the University goal, during which Wylde, the Crimson goal-tender, did heroic work...
...manager has done heroic, work at Memorial. He has given excellent food and good service with the minimum use of equipment, often expediting the service by working, himself, in the kitchen. But 300 men will not support an out of date equipment, designed to serve 1,000 to 3,000. Despite a fine "esprit de corps" the Hall has failed. The reasons are under Memorial Hall in the form of a power plant, ice plant, electric laundry, a large bakery, a butcher-shop, numerous refrigerating rooms, an oversize range and roasting oven, numerous old-fash-loned steam jacketed ketties, sundry...
...epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...
...years of age, Mestrovic has nevertheless for years been as well known as any contemporary artist on the Continent. Oddly enough, his work has never before reached the U.S. Its arrival has caused no little talk, for Mestrovic is an individualist of power. His themes are highly dramatic?heroic figures, gaining in a sort of grim majesty what they lose in intimacy and, occasionally, in essential nobility. Mestrovic's life is interesting in connection with his art. Born of Croatian parents?farming peasants? as a boy he wandered the fields, tending sheep, carving in wood. The long hours alone with...