Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Admiral Lord Nelson created by his heroic death a stencil for millions of Victorian lithographs, he is said also to have left desolate the most beautiful woman of his time. Lady Hamilton's white face and big eyes, painted by Romney and Gainsborough, were so widely admired that her elderly husband investigated no rumored infidelities "for fear they might be true." When Nelson left her to save his country, he asked her to sing for him once more−and there now is heard, apparently issuing from the lips of Corinne Griffith, "You'll Take the High...
Thus by a gesture intended principally for local effect, Chief Rebel Valenzuela sought to identify himself with the magic name of his old heroic friend, General Alvaro Obregon, who was assassinated last year shortly after his re-election as President of Mexico (TIME, July 30). Last week indeed the murdered President's widow, Senora Maria Tapita Obregori, was understood to have added a letter of fervent supplication to the documents despatched by Señor Valenzuela to Washington...
...with him in spite of, or because of, his wife; then left him in the lurch because, she discovered it was the cynic she "really loved." The idealist snatched this opportunity to make the final sacrifice for his spearhead of beauty, and set out upon a raging sea, heroic in a catboat. At the moment of wreck he suddenly realized the folly of his romanticism and grabbed a drifting spar. At daybreak he was rescued by contemptuous fishermen. And so to bed with a cold and a fright, the disillusioned young...
...Heroic, happy ending: "Yes. he is all right. Commander...
According to information to the Corriére della Sera from Cologne via London, it is confirmed that the barbaric conquerors of Antwerp punished the unfortunate Belgian priests for their heroic refusal to ring the church bells by hanging them as living clappers to the bells with their heads down...