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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>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Courage." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Courage.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Courage." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Courage.html |
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Fortitude
280. Fortitude (See also Bravery.)
Fratricide (See MURDER .) |
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"Fortitude." Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. 1986. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Fortitude." Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. 1986. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505500289.html "Fortitude." Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. 1986. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505500289.html |
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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." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "courage." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-courage.html "courage." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-courage.html |
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courage
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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W. R. F. BROWNING. "courage." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. W. R. F. BROWNING. "courage." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-courage.html W. R. F. BROWNING. "courage." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-courage.html |
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Courage
101. Courage
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"Courage." -Ologies and -Isms. 1986. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Courage." -Ologies and -Isms. 1986. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505200112.html "Courage." -Ologies and -Isms. 1986. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505200112.html |
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courage
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T. F. HOAD. "courage." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "courage." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-courage.html T. F. HOAD. "courage." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-courage.html |
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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." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "fortitude." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-fortitude.html "fortitude." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-fortitude.html |
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fortitude
fortitude XV. — OF. — L. fortitūdō, f. fortis strong; see -TUDE.
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T. F. HOAD. "fortitude." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "fortitude." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-fortitude.html T. F. HOAD. "fortitude." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-fortitude.html |
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FORTITUDE
FORTITUDE, see deception.
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I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "FORTITUDE." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "FORTITUDE." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-FORTITUDE.html I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "FORTITUDE." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-FORTITUDE.html |
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bravery
bravery
•beery, bleary, cheery, dearie, dreary, Dun Laoghaire, eerie, eyrie (US aerie), Kashmiri, leery, peri, praemunire, query, smeary, teary, theory, weary
•Deirdre • incendiary • intermediary
•subsidiary
•auxiliary, ciliary, domiciliary
•apiary • topiary • farriery • furriery
•justiciary
•bestiary, vestiary
•breviary • aviary • hosiery
•diary, enquiry, expiry, fiery, friary, inquiry, miry, priory, spiry, wiry
•podiatry, psychiatry
•dowry, floury, flowery, loury, showery, towery
•brewery • jewellery (US jewelry)
•curie, de jure, fioriture, fury, houri, Jewry, jury, Manipuri, Missouri, moory, Newry, tandoori, Urey
•statuary • actuary • sanctuary
•obituary • sumptuary • voluptuary
•January • electuary • ossuary
•mortuary
•Bradbury, Cadbury
•blackberry, hackberry
•cranberry • waxberry
•Barbary, barberry
•Shaftesbury • raspberry
•bayberry, blaeberry
•Avebury • Aylesbury • Sainsbury
•bilberry, tilbury
•bribery
•corroboree, jobbery, robbery, slobbery, snobbery
•dogberry • Roddenberry • Fosbury
•strawberry • Salisbury
•crowberry, snowberry
•chokeberry
•Rosebery, Shrewsbury
•blueberry, dewberry
•Dewsbury • Bloomsbury • gooseberry
•blubbery, rubbery, shrubbery
•Sudbury • mulberry • huckleberry
•Bunbury • husbandry • loganberry
•Canterbury • Glastonbury
•Burberry, turbary
•hatchery • archery
•lechery, treachery
•stitchery, witchery
•debauchery • butchery • camaraderie
•cindery, tindery
•industry • dromedary • lapidary
•spidery • bindery • doddery
•quandary • powdery • boundary
•bouldery • embroidery
•prudery, rudery
•do-goodery • shuddery • thundery
•prebendary • legendary • secondary
•amphorae • wafery
•midwifery, periphery
•infantry • housewifery • spoofery
•puffery • sulphury (US sulfury)
•Calgary
•beggary, Gregory
•vagary
•piggery, priggery, whiggery
•brigandry • bigotry • allegory
•vinegary • category • subcategory
•hoggery, toggery
•pettifoggery • demagoguery
•roguery • sugary
•buggery, skulduggery, snuggery, thuggery
•Hungary • humbuggery
•ironmongery • lingerie • treasury
•usury • menagerie • pageantry
•Marjorie • kedgeree • gingery
•imagery • orangery • savagery
•forgery • soldiery • drudgery
•perjury, surgery
•microsurgery
•hackery, quackery, Thackeray, Zachary
•mountebankery • knick-knackery
•gimcrackery • peccary • grotesquerie
•bakery, fakery, jacquerie
•chickaree, chicory, hickory, Terpsichore, trickery
•whiskery • apothecary
•crockery, mockery, rockery
•falconry • jiggery-pokery
•cookery, crookery, rookery
•brusquerie
•puckery, succory
•cuckoldry
•calorie, gallery, Malory, salary, Valerie
•saddlery • balladry • gallantry
•kilocalorie • diablerie • chandlery
•harlotry • celery • pedlary
•exemplary
•helotry, zealotry
•nailery, raillery
•Tuileries
•ancillary, artillery, capillary, codicillary, distillery, fibrillary, fritillary, Hilary, maxillary, pillory
•mamillary • tutelary • corollary
•bardolatry, hagiolatry, iconolatry, idolatry
•cajolery, drollery
•foolery, tomfoolery
•constabulary, vocabulary
•scapulary • capitulary • formulary
•scullery • jugglery • cutlery
•chancellery • epistolary • burglary
•mammary • fragmentary
•passementerie • flimflammery
•armory, armoury, gendarmerie
•almonry
•emery, memory
•creamery • shimmery • primary
•rosemary • yeomanry
•parfumerie, perfumery
•flummery, Montgomery, mummery, summary, summery
•gossamery • customary • infirmary
•cannery, granary, tannery
•canonry
•antennary, bimillenary, millenary, venery
•tenantry • chicanery
•beanery, bicentenary, catenary, centenary, deanery, greenery, machinery, plenary, scenery, senary, septenary
•disciplinary, interdisciplinary
•hymnary • missionary
•ordinary, subordinary
•valetudinary • imaginary • millinery
•culinary • seminary • preliminary
•luminary • urinary • veterinary
•mercenary • sanguinary
•binary, finery, pinery, quinary, vinery, winery
•Connery • Conakry • ornery • joinery
•buffoonery, poltroonery, sublunary, superlunary
•gunnery, nunnery
•consuetudinary • visionary
•exclusionary • legionary • pulmonary
•coronary • reactionary • expansionary
•concessionary, confessionary, discretionary
•confectionery, insurrectionary, lectionary
•deflationary, inflationary, probationary, stationary, stationery
•expeditionary, petitionary, prohibitionary, traditionary, transitionary
•dictionary • cautionary
•ablutionary, counter-revolutionary, devolutionary, elocutionary, evolutionary, revolutionary, substitutionary
•functionary
•diversionary, reversionary
•fernery, quaternary, ternary
•peppery • extempore • weaponry
•apery, drapery, japery, napery, papery, vapoury (US vapory)
•frippery, slippery
•coppery, foppery
•popery • dupery • trumpery
•February • heraldry • knight-errantry
•arbitrary • registrary • library
•contrary • horary • supernumerary
•itinerary • honorary • funerary
•contemporary, extemporary, temporary
•literary • brasserie • chancery
•accessory, intercessory, pessary, possessory, tesserae
•dispensary, incensory, ostensory, sensory, suspensory
•tracery
•pâtisserie, rotisserie
•emissary • dimissory
•commissary, promissory
•janissary • necessary • derisory
•glossary • responsory • sorcery
•grocery • greengrocery
•delusory, illusory
•compulsory • vavasory • adversary
•anniversary, bursary, cursory, mercery, nursery
•haberdashery
•evidentiary, penitentiary, plenipotentiary, residentiary
•beneficiary, fishery, judiciary
•noshery • gaucherie • fiduciary
•luxury • tertiary
•battery, cattery, chattery, flattery, tattery
•factory, manufactory, olfactory, phylactery, refractory, satisfactory
•artery, martyry, Tartary
•mastery, plastery
•directory, ex-directory, interjectory, rectory, refectory, trajectory
•peremptory
•alimentary, complementary, complimentary, documentary, elementary, parliamentary, rudimentary, sedimentary, supplementary, testamentary
•investigatory
•adulatory, aleatory, approbatory, celebratory, clarificatory, classificatory, commendatory, congratulatory, consecratory, denigratory, elevatory, gyratory, incantatory, incubatory, intimidatory, modificatory, participatory, placatory, pulsatory, purificatory, reificatory, revelatory, rotatory
•natatory • elucidatory • castigatory
•mitigatory • justificatory
•imprecatory • equivocatory
•flagellatory • execratory • innovatory
•eatery, excretory
•glittery, jittery, skittery, twittery
•benedictory, contradictory, maledictory, valedictory, victory
•printery, splintery
•consistory, history, mystery
•presbytery
•inhibitory, prohibitory
•hereditary • auditory • budgetary
•military, paramilitary
•solitary • cemetery • limitary
•vomitory • dormitory • fumitory
•interplanetary, planetary, sanitary
•primogenitary • dignitary
•admonitory, monitory
•unitary • monetary • territory
•secretary • undersecretary
•plebiscitary • repository • baptistery
•transitory
•depositary, depository, expository, suppository
•niterie
•Godwottery, lottery, pottery, tottery
•bottomry • watery • psaltery
•coterie, notary, protonotary, rotary, votary
•upholstery
•bijouterie, charcuterie, circumlocutory
•persecutory • statutory • salutary
•executory
•contributory, retributory, tributary
•interlocutory
•buttery, fluttery
•introductory • adultery • effrontery
•perfunctory • blustery • mediatory
•retaliatory • conciliatory • expiatory
•denunciatory, renunciatory
•appreciatory, depreciatory
•initiatory, propitiatory
•dietary, proprietary
•extenuatory
•mandatary, mandatory
•predatory • sedentary • laudatory
•prefatory • offertory • negatory
•obligatory
•derogatory, interrogatory, supererogatory
•nugatory
•expurgatory, objurgatory, purgatory
•precatory
•explicatory, indicatory, vindicatory
•confiscatory, piscatory
•dedicatory • judicatory
•qualificatory • pacificatory
•supplicatory
•communicatory, excommunicatory
•masticatory • prognosticatory
•invocatory • obfuscatory
•revocatory • charlatanry
•depilatory, dilatory, oscillatory
•assimilatory • consolatory
•voluntary • emasculatory
•ejaculatory
•ambulatory, circumambulatory, perambulatory
•regulatory
•articulatory, gesticulatory
•manipulatory • copulatory
•expostulatory • circulatory
•amatory, declamatory, defamatory, exclamatory, inflammatory, proclamatory
•crematory • segmentary
•lachrymatory
•commentary, promontory
•informatory, reformatory
•momentary
•affirmatory, confirmatory
•explanatory • damnatory
•condemnatory
•cosignatory, signatory
•combinatory
•discriminatory, eliminatory, incriminatory, recriminatory
•comminatory • exterminatory
•hallucinatory • procrastinatory
•monastery • repertory
•emancipatory • anticipatory
•exculpatory, inculpatory
•declaratory, preparatory
•respiratory • perspiratory
•vibratory
•migratory, transmigratory
•exploratory, laboratory, oratory
•inauguratory • adjuratory
•corroboratory • reverberatory
•refrigeratory • compensatory
•desultory • dysentery
•exhortatory, hortatory
•salutatory • gustatory • lavatory
•inventory
•conservatory, observatory
•improvisatory
•accusatory, excusatory
•lathery
•feathery, heathery, leathery
•dithery, slithery
•carvery
•reverie, severy
•Avery, bravery, knavery, quavery, Savery, savory, savoury, slavery, wavery
•thievery
•livery, quivery, shivery
•silvery
•ivory, salivary
•ovary
•discovery, recovery
•servery • equerry • reliquary
•antiquary • cassowary • stipendiary
•colliery • pecuniary • chinoiserie
•misery • wizardry • citizenry
•advisory, provisory, revisory, supervisory
•causerie, rosary
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"bravery." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bravery." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bravery.html "bravery." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bravery.html |
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courage
courage
•carriage, disparage, Harwich, intermarriage, marriage, miscarriage
•undercarriage
•cartridge, partridge
•Selfridge • Cambridge • Bainbridge
•Knightsbridge • umpirage
•borage, forage, Norwich, porridge
•Oxbridge • storage • drawbridge
•Trowbridge • tollbridge • footbridge
•courage, demurrage, encourage
•umbrage • suffrage
•peerage, steerage
•sewerage • moorage
•harbourage (US harborage)
•pasturage • pilferage • anchorage
•acreage • vicarage • brokerage
•cellarage • Coleridge
•haemorrhage (US hemorrhage)
•amperage • factorage • hectarage
•litreage (US literage), metreage (US meterage) • fosterage
•porterage, quarterage
•tutorage • average
•beverage, Beveridge
•leverage • overage • coverage
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"courage." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "courage." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-courage.html "courage." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-courage.html |
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fortitude
fortitude
•allude, brood, collude, conclude, crude, delude, dude, elude, étude, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, food, illude, include, intrude, Jude, lewd, mood, nude, obtrude, occlude, Oudh, preclude, protrude, prude, pseud, pultrude, rood, rude, seclude, shrewd, snood, transude, unglued, unsubdued, who'd, you'd
•habitude
•magnitude • seafood • wholefood
•Quaalude • postlude • interlude
•Ermintrude • Gertrude • unvalued
•prelude • quietude • hebetude
•longitude • amplitude
•similitude, verisimilitude
•solitude • plenitude • finitude
•decrepitude • turpitude • pulchritude
•crassitude, lassitude
•solicitude, vicissitude
•attitude, beatitude, gratitude, latitude, platitude
•exactitude • sanctitude • aptitude
•rectitude • ineptitude • promptitude
•fortitude • multitude • certitude
•servitude • consuetude
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