Word: heroical
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Hardly a day passes that without headlines quoting _ some personage on the necessity for men to save the world from ruin. Possibly it is this very call that is robbing the stage. " Men," in the heroic sense, usually look down on the actor. So widespread is this convention that men are not becoming actors. Accordingly, our stage lacks new, young blood...
...people and the Government of France on this day which consecrates the birth of the French Republic. The United States is proud to have long been closely associated with a nation whose love of liberty is historic and whose sacrifices for the maintenance of that sacred right have been heroic...
...idea is not novel. And the emphasis is bad. Education for the mere purpose of propping up a nation is apt to be a very curious kind of education. Spanish books of history speak thus of our war with Spain: " After battles on land and sea and many heroic deeds by our brave soldiers and sailors, Spain agreed to peace terms which obliged the North Americans to pay us twenty million dollars of their money." True-but incomplete...
George Grey Barnard, American sculptor, is completing a heroic group of Adam and Eve for a secluded spot in John D. Rockefeller's estate at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. The figure of Adam is 25 feet high, and the two are said to have been cut from the largest block of Carrara marble ever brought to America. The design represents Eve issuing from the rib of Adam. Mr. Barnard has been at work on the piece several years. The legend is current in art circles that at one time the elder Rockefeller was opposed to the nude in sculpture...
...drop too much to drink! The piteous cry has resounded through Cambridge during all this week of "gala festivities". Portly undergraduates and graduates have been dwindled to emaciated shadows; it is not inconceivable that some unfortunates disappeared under the confetti shower of Tuesday in nameless but heroic graves...