Courage

Courage

Courage (1928), a comedy by Tom Barry. [Ritz Theatre, 280 perf.] The widowed Mary Colebrook ( Janet Beecher) brings her seven children east from Iowa in the hopes that the rich Massachusetts Colebrooks will help support and educate them. However, Caroline Colebrook ( Helen Strickland) resents the fact that one of the children, Bill ( Junior Durkin), is illegitimate and succeeds in alienating the other youngsters from their mother and brother. When Bill comes into an unexpected inheritance, Mary and he head back west, where Mary will wed Bill's father. For all the unpleasant situations in the play, its treatment was essentially sentimental when not comic. It typifies the sort of theatre that could skim the surface of ugliness and still find a large market before the development of sound films, radio soap operas, and television.

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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Courage." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Fortitude

280. Fortitude (See also Bravery.)

  1. Asia despite torture, refuses to deny Moses. [Islam: Walsh Classical, 35]
  2. Calantha fulfills wifely and queenly duties despite losses. [Br. Lit.: The Broken Heart ]
  3. Corey, Giles martyred without flinching. [Am. Lit.: New England Tragedies, Walsh Modern, 106]
  4. helmeted warrior representation in painting of cardinal virtue. [Art: Hall, 127]
  5. lion personification of intrepidity. [Animal Symbolism: Hall, 193]
  6. Valley Forge proving ground of American mettle. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 519]

Fratricide (See MURDER .)

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courage

cour·age / ˈkərij; ˈkə-rij/ • n. the ability to do something that frightens one: she called on all her courage to face the ordeal. ∎  strength in the face of pain or grief. PHRASES: have the courage of one's convictions act on one's beliefs despite danger or disapproval. ORIGIN: Middle English (denoting the heart, as the seat of feelings): from Old French corage, from Latin cor ‘heart.’

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courage Implied as the human quality opposite to cowardice (Ecclus. [= Sir.] 2: 12 f.) and mentioned positively (Wisd. 8: 7) and exemplified in the Maccabean martyrs (1 Macc. 9: 10). In the NT it is allied with the confidence that comes from trust in God (Heb. 13: 6), who raised Christ from death (John 16: 33; Acts 23: 11).

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Courage

101. Courage

heroism
1. the state or condition of being a hero.
2. behavior typical of a hero. heroic , adj.
potvaliancy, potvalor, potvalency
courage or bravery occasioned by drunkenness; Dutch courage. potvaliant , adj.
valiancy
bravery or courage. Also valience .
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courage †heart as the seat of feeling, spirit XIII; †intention, purpose; bravery, valour XIV. — OF. corage, curage (mod. courage) :- Rom. *corāticum, f. cor HEART; see -AGE.
So courageous XIII.

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fortitude

for·ti·tude / ˈfôrtəˌtoōd/ • n. courage in pain or adversity: she endured her illness with great fortitude.

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fortitude

fortitude XV. — OF. — L. fortitūdō, f. fortis strong; see -TUDE.

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FORTITUDE

FORTITUDE, see deception.

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fortitude

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