Word: falcon
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...shepherd David, a pale boy staring at a man in armor; David the warrior, huge-thewed and falcon-hearted, marching before the armies of Israel into battle; King David sitting in judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp; David, old and a prophet, remembering past enchantments and past ills-this cycle in the sounds of a limited wind-choir, a piano, harmonium, celesta, double-bass and percussion, was heard last week in Manhattan -Arthur Honegger's "Symphonic Psalm," performed by the Society of the Friends of Music...
...type of all desert wanderers, the very ghost of the Golden Horde, rode with Hassanein's thin company along the last frontiers of nomadism. The volume is adorned with many excellent photographs, frontispieced with one of the author himself?no don, but a bold sheik, his falcon features glittering above an expanse of magnificent laundry...
...tall bay, four years ago grand champion of the Olympia, owned by O. W. Lehmann. Successful campaigner of uncountable shows, Field Marshal returned to the ring this spring at the South Shore Country Club, Chicago, where he was victorious, though later beaten at Brockton, Mass. Proud as a falcon and dauntless still, his defeat by Knight Commander shadows the end of his show days...
...Falcon. Jekyll and Hyde in the luxurious suitings of 16th Century Sicily are here revived for your attention. In the heart of a young priest burns the conflicting fires of piety and pillage. The latter he has inherited from a bandit father who has seduced a certain Mother Superior; the former, from that same Mother's upbringing...
...infuse blood into the purple veins of this invention McKay Morris was engaged. One of the better U. S. actors, he dealt in satisfying manner with the contradictory romance of his Red Falcon...