Word: manfully
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...life was laced with women of comparatively easy virtue to whom he was unfailingly kind and, when he had money, generous. One sued him; another just missed him with a knife; still another married him, or at least they lived together as man & wife. Cora Taylor was devoted to him, but only a romp with his tiny nieces ever brought a smile to the face of Stephen Crane. His life had a kind of luckless ill grace as if he had been selected fate's prize guinea...
...Badge of Courage, and a handful of poems and stories, notably The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Written when Crane was 22, The Red Badge was a brilliantly intuitive study of war and the emotions of men in combat, by a man who had yet to see a battlefield...
...alarmed. It was a commonplace among French liberals in the 1830s, and especially among very young liberals, for disappointments in love to take this form. Lucien's heart had in fact been thoroughly shattered in Book One of a Stendhal novel, and now in Book Two the young man was determined to live without a heart. His father, a banker, was delighted, and chevied the boy into politics...
Once the Kettle. This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn. At 82, he is a onetime Manhattan produce broker and skilled amateur magician who has spent most of a lifetime trying to expose fake mediums as "the vilest gang of crooks that ever lived." No magician at writing a book, Rinn has nonetheless succeeded in presenting a bulky and formidable blast against spiritualism in all its forms...
Zorn was in despair "when he felt a gentle finger touch his elbow." It was the Golux, "a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark, describable beard...