Word: heroical
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...Spirit of France Today," M. Hugues LeRoux, editor of the Paris "Matin" and special envoy from France to President Wilson, declared in the Union last night that 500,000 young Frenchmen were in their graves because of German materialism. He illustrated his talk with graphic descriptions of the heroic efforts of the French to save their country. France does not believe in war and the leaders would willingly stop fighting but the Germans feel that they are striving for liberty and have turned the war into a kind of revolution with the annexing of Belgium and France as their ultimate...
...Princeton team for a touchdown. Then followed a succession of hard line attacks, spectacular forward passes, and beautiful punts that drove the Princeton team steadily backward. That forward passes could be so successfully used was a revelation; had time permitted Dartmouth would have doubtless scored once more despite the heroic and desperate defence which the lighter team was putting...
...experience of the last forty years, it is that they "tend to tear his singers to pieces," as the author of this article affirms. It has, on the contrary, been observed again and again that the only singers whose voices have been seriously injured by singing the more heroic Wagner roles, have been those who have either not known how to sing, or whose voices were by nature unsuited to highly dramatic music...
...England character in some of its strange phases. The third play, "Ygraine of the Hillfolk" by R. E. Rogers '09, is the second drama in verse which the club has acted in its five years of producing Harvard plays. It unfolds a tense Viking tale of wrong suffered, and heroic retribution, woman upon man. The theme is different from that of any play that the club has produced and offers large opportunities for vivid acting. Mr. H. T. Parker '90, dramatic editor of the Boston Transcript, says, "The short plays that the club has previously acted have been of many...
...makes. Even in the face of death and its dread alternative, matrimony, our friends find heart for song and dancing, yet the story bravely progresses towards its climax, with real sparks crackling from the wireless machine. All the characters turn up, and even the red-headed office-boy performs heroic deeds. The real thriller, of course, is the rescue in the nick of time by the naval officer in a white uniform fresh from Lewando...