Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Edward Johnson as Sadko sang sternly to the merchants, but beguilingly to the sea princess. Many in the audience reflected that he alone of all great male opera singers has the grace desirable for so fanciful a part. Others, however, wished that he could have achieved more of the heroic, legendary dimensions suggested by the role. Soprano Editha Fleischer sang sensuously. Conductor Tullio Serafin drew out of his orchestra all the scintillating tonality which the composer could have desired of the score...
Because they are not his friends, Il Duce saw no reason for including among his "Immortals" the inventor of wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi; the foremost Italian philosopher, Benedetto Croce, or that orchidaceous but heroic poet-conqueror who stole Fiume for grateful Italy, Gabriele D'Annunzio...
Every child in Serbia (now Jugoslavia) knows that Ferdinand Gavrillo Princip is the name of the young man from the province of Bosnia who, on June 28, 1914, assassinated the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, and thus kindled the World War. Last week an heroic statue in honor of the late Princip was carted into ominous Serajevo. Patriots made ready for the formal unveiling next week. Excited little girls wove wreaths and little boys practiced piping songs to honor the Great Assassin...
...Princip, surmounting his name with laurel wreaths. Protests from abroad caused the Jugoslavian Government to order the Princip tablet covered with a thin layer of plaster, the official position being that it has been obliterated, while the populace consider that the Government is pretty slick. But the new heroic statue would seem to be definitive, a proclamation to the world in marble that the end can justify the means, that the most dastardly of crimes can become a spotless deed...
Hiram of Tyre. At Jebeil, Phoenicia, industrious Germans unearthed a statue of heroic proportions. After much learned controversy, the diggers agreed that the statue must be that of King Hiram I of Tyre, who reigned as a contemporary of Solomon, 480 years after Moses had led the children of Israel from the wilderness and a diet of manna. King Hiram was something of an entrepreneur for his time: Solomon needed aid for the building of his temple, the mighty House of the Lord; Hiram had certain supplies and many artisans. They bargained. The outcome was that Hiram sent Solomon hewed...