Word: fighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Confession of their faith. When the smoke of theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan but he was a peppery, name-calling fighter. Dr. Machen caused the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke to relinquish his pew in Princeton's First Presbyterian Church because, said he, Dr. Machen preached "a dismal, bilious travesty of the Gospel...
...commander-in-chief of the Army of the Potomac, he had to fight not only the redoubtable Lee but his own inefficient, stupid or untrustworthy lieutenants. Only two of Grant's generals whom Biographer McCormick praises are Sherman and Sheridan: Sherman was a good tactician but a poor fighter; Sheridan was Grant's equal in battle but never commanded a large army. For Burnside, Hancock, Meade, et al., McCormick has little but harsh words: "Strive as he might, Grant could not drive them forward...
Jealousy (Columbia). To a familiar subject this picture adds only a few superficial footnotes. A prize-fighter (George Murphy) meditates dubiously the relation between his fiancée (Nancy Carroll) and her employer. After he marries her and goes broke, the doll-faced wife gets a new job from the old employer, whose identity she conceals from her husband. The prize-fighter discovers the two together just after they have been viewing samples of costume jewelry. In a scuffle the employer is killed. The prize-fighter wanders off in a daze while his wife is tried and convicted of murder...
Stumping for Democratic candidates in Detroit last week was Negro Jack Johnson, onetime (1908-15) world's heavyweight champion. Cried he to the Universal Negro Improvement Association: "Franklin D. Roosevelt is champion now and wearing the belt. Abraham Lincoln was a good fighter in his prime, but he can't help us now. Always string along with the champion...
...news-organ, the National Zeitung, called Dimitroff's prediction a "lie." Anxiously grooming Göring for the job of Hitler's Deputy, it went on: "The Realmleader's glance, if he must have a Deputy, falls more and more on his old and true fellow-fighter [Göring...