Word: bowmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coldwell (NH), R. H. Phelps '30, R. W. Hale '30, W. R. Koch '29, C. B. Davls '31, D. H. Wilson '31, C. A. Prisk (NH), H. D. Jackson (NH), K. F. Fielding (S), Carrol Swift (S), Harold Kirkpartick (C), Rubin Parkins (NH), P. S. Dalton '31, C. D. Bowmen (S), Ingram Terry (S), S. S. Elliott (C), A. B. Douropulis '31, John Rothschild Jr. '29, S. L. Burr '31, J. S. Mahon (NH), George Chesey (S), G. H. Willis '30, P. D. Morris '31, A. B. Wood (NH), K. T. Dennis '81, Paul Stoughton...
...through a wilderness of flowers. Their meek quarry fled through the brilliant fields; behind him, silent and happy, the pursuit increased and came more quickly; a wind stiffened in their flags and made the starry flowers bend across the grass. The white hounds leaned upon their leashes and the bowmen bent their bows. Crouching in a garden at last, the prisoned unicorn gazed upon his followers. They levelled spears amid a thousand flowers...
...host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages) ; dirges for a Plantagenet, for Pan, for Nikoptis at Akr Caar; praise for Ysolt, for Evanoe, for thigh-embarked Daphne; a song of the Bowmen of Shu (China, 1100 B. C.) ; Browningesque (but far airier) narratives of Provence, her knights and troubadours. "Little naked and impudent songs," he has called his work. Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days. Once...
...when the French were routed by English bowmen...
...days when the Black Prince shattered the Genoese cross-bowmen at Crecy, and Sir John Chandos was the model of knightly chivalry for all the young squires of England, to be a duke or a marquis, or even a baronet, meant something. When the sword of the sovereign touched a blood-stained shoulder, all the world knew that the favored one had accomplished a mighty deed of valor, or that the army of King Philip had lost another eagle. The golden spur implied bravery, and honorable achievement...