Word: stoutheartedness
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Their smoky, orange-red torches of bamboo and pitch balls reflected off the somber, jagged ruins, dusty brick and grimy concrete of windowless, crumbling buildings along the line of march. It said much for a stouthearted people, the pride they had found in their new, battle-tested armies and the...
Gone, too, unfortunately, are much of the liveliness and visual wit of such Chaplin achievements as City Lights (1931) and The Circus (1928). The picture often comes close to a halt with lethargic talk and lackluster philosophizing. Chaplin didn't intend Limelight to be a comedy; he calls it...
The San Francisco Story (Fidelity-Vogue; Warner) shows how stouthearted Joel McCrea cleaned up sinful San Francisco during the 18503. The main object of McCrea's moral fervor is Unprincipled Politician Sidney Blackmer, who is apparently responsible for most of the corruption in California. Blackmer's good friend...
Died. Sigmund Romberg, 64, who filled the world's ear with the melodies from more than 2,000 songs and scores of gushing, Viennese-style operettas; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his hotel suite in Manhattan. An immigrant from Hungary, he started out at 22 in a Manhattan pencil...
The 50 members of the congregation obediently began to circulate, shaking hands. When they came to the black-faced stranger, two stouthearted men offered him the right hand of fellowship. He pulled away and ran.