Word: archers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, they have succeeded in collecting an arsenal consisting of a .33 target pistol, three regulation Springfield Army rifles, and a sixty-pound bow with an archer of no mean ability to go with it, and they are confident that "he who laughs last laughs best...
Died. Arthur ("Art") Young,* 52, famed archer; after an appendectomy; at Harvey, Ill. An expert pistol and rifle shot, he turned to bows & arrows "because it gives the beasts a chance." In 1925 he went to Africa with Stewart Edward White and the late Dr. Saxton Pope, killed seven lions with his dagger-pointed arrows. He slew walruses in Greenland, a 1,300-lb. bear on Kodiak Island...
...young man with lots of self-confidence sat down in the reading room of the British Museum to write his first play. He called it Widowers' Houses. George Bernard Shaw had already met with indifferent success as an orator, fictionist and Fabian Society member when Dramacritic William Archer presented him with a skeleton plot and persuaded him to turn his talents toward the theatre. It was not long before Shaw was back with the news that he needed more plot, having used up all Archer had given him before he was halfway through the first...
...introductory remarks, the diminutive Irishman occupied himself with a flagellation of one William Archer, an eminent English dramatic critic who was so imprudent as to publish a book. "The Old Drama and the New," ridiculing the Elizabethan dramatists. This work holds that many of the seventeenth century plays tend toward a childish over emphasis of the horror element, and contrasts the unpretentious realism of the modern stage. In spirited refutation, O'Casey tied Webster's "Ducieas of Malfi," and pointed out that the swords and bloody charnel-houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones...
...grey, stone-built Edinburgh last week the 70-year-old 7th Duke of Buccleuch wriggled his lean limbs into an archer's uniform of woodland green. So did all the Scottish aristocrats of the Royal Company of Archers, of whom the Duke is Captain-General. They filled their quivers with silver-barbed arrows, stepped into their limousines and rode to Holyrood Palace, there to guard King George and Queen Mary who had come up for Scotland's yearly "drawing room...