Word: battler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...football coach, having reduced Harvard to the status of an early-season setup, should publicly advise the Crimson how to come back. Depending on how they assayed his advice, readers guessed: that Pressagent Michelson was having some sly fun with his old enemies, that the wrinkled old battler genuinely longed to match his wits once more with a worthy opponent, or that "Charley the Mike," with Michiavellian cunning, was deliberately attempting to steer the tottering Elephant over a precipice...
...Among other veterans' tales of literary warfare, Chesterton records the story of the great Critic Henley, who got so excited in a controversy over Tolstoy and Ibsen that he hit a brother-critic with his crutch. Corpulent, good-natured Chesterton was too absent-minded to be a good battler. On one of his lecture tours he sent his wife a telegram: "Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?" Another time Shaw persuaded him to take part in a cinema, saying it was being produced by Barrie. Chesterton let himself be dressed in a cowboy suit, submitted...
...case in England twelve years ago (TIME, Oct. 25, 1925 et ante), His Highness the polo-playing Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir. Of these three paramount potentates only the Nizam has had gumption to battle the British for every possible concession Hyderabad can wangle out of the new Constitution. Chief battler for the "Richest Man in the World" is fox-bearded, gimlet-eyed Sir Akbar Hydari whose importance far eclipses his modest title of Finance and Railway Member of the State Executive Council of Hyderabad (see cut, p. 22). It was he who so stirred up the Chamber of Princes that...
Wilhelmina, who has reigned longer than any other living king or queen (45 years), let it be known that she said, "These are grave times," when receiving last week her great and favorite Premier, beak-nosed Hendrikus Colijn, bald battler these many years to keep the guilder on gold...
...breathing autobiography, My Battle, which is still Germany's bestseller, has sold well over 1,000,000 copies. Available in English is nothing but a bowdlerized version with all the more violent passages purged. When a group of Frenchmen put the full text into French last year, Battler Hitler sued them in the French courts, obtained an injunction. His theory: it is good for Germans to read his hymnal of hate, bad for Germans to have foreigners read...