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...died in 1170, was lengthily tried in 1538 under Henry VIII. Henry, wrote Lord Campbell, "when he wished to throw off the authority of the Pope, thinking that as long as the name of St. Thomas should remain in the calendar men would be stimulated by his example to brave the ecclesiastical authority of the Sovereign, instructed his Attorney General to file a quo warranto information against him [Thomas a Becket" for usurping the office of a Saint. . . ." Verdict: guilty of rebellion and treason...
Sure has to be brave --Boston Traveier...
...British influence from the continent of Europe. By week's end this aim had been very nearly accomplished. But there were still four Balkan countries whose attitudes, though not necessarily influenced by Britain, were in varying degrees unsatisfactory to the Axis. These were Yugoslavia, Russia, Turkey and brave Greece...
...unlike many U. S. interventionists, knows at first hand what war is. Born in Italy of Boston parents, he enlisted with the Canadians in World War I, was twice gassed. He is the author of Paths of Glory (TIME, June 3, 1935), a superb war novel, in which three brave French soldiers were executed for "mutiny" after a sadistic general had ordered a hopeless attack...
January 1930 was the worst possible moment for a historical novel to come out. Amid long and difficult labor pains, the "proletarian" novel was being born. If the hero and heroine spoke bad English mixed with a brave obscenity, they were proletarians. Characters who spoke good English were, by Depression critical standards, the enemies of progress...