Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks later the public had not stopped to consider what the son of a radical Congressman from Minnesota, and of a high-school chemistry teacher, was probably like. It had made up its mind that Lindbergh was a sort of automaton of modesty, a creature, boyish and noble, of heroic stature...
Last week at the Galerie Quatre Chemins in Paris, Maurice Grosser displayed his latest and most interesting creations: paintings of fruits and vegetables in heroic sizes (twice to twelve times nature). By this simple device of magnification, Grosser has lately made strawberries and peppers not merely more edible but more visual, has shocked even jaded critics into recognizing the richness, delicacy and care of his painting. As untidy in his life as he is tidy in his painting, stocky, mocking, hard-working Artist Grosser last week fidgeted, tore up match boxes, explained his preference of subject matter with classic concision...
Last week Dr. Anders himself was on the carpet, and the reason was a pulverized poison called morphine. By regulation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a physician may not supply morphine to a known addict. But for two years Dr. Anders has been feeding heroic doses of morphine to addict Fred Barrick, a busy Philadelphia insurance agent. Federal agents warned Dr. Anders three times to cut off Fred Barrick's supply. Three times he denounced them for "intruding upon the relation between a doctor and his patients." Finally the agents caught Dr. Anders off base...
Jean Giono, 44, is a burly, self-educated French-Italian hillbilly, whom critics have called "one of the giants of modern French letters." He lives in a remote mountain village of the Basses-Alpes, writes unusual novels about hamhanded, muscularly poetic peasants against bright-colored, heroic landscapes. He eschews the literary world, refuses to visit Paris,* and has become almost a legendary figure in France. Two years ago U. S. readers were introduced to Giono with The Song of the World, agreed that Giono packs a powerful pastoral punch...
...petitioners, I dare venture, do not all have very intimate knowledge of Mr. Hicks's "teaching ability," but are more probably "liberals" of the sort whose hearts throb and cheeks flush at the thought of the persecuted communist, and who are enamored of the heroic and dangerous elements in a position which they are unable to defend logically, and which they would be too timid to defend outside of academic spheres...