Word: invictus
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...skylight as he talked of the Constitution. Nothing else would sway John Rankin. "When my conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus, and as he came to the final "I am the captain of my soul" his voice dropped to the stentorian stage whisper of the ancient ham actor. As he trudged up the aisle to his seat, with the conscious humility of a great performer, the House rose and gave...
Toward the end of the campaign Maverick was a sick man. Between rallies he stayed in a hospital, sent out copies of Henley's Invictus to assure his friends that his head was "bloody, but unbowed." But he knew he was cornered. Fortnight ago Quin had led him in the Democratic election by 1,295 votes...
...program for the concert has been announced as follows: 1. Under the Double Eagle Up the Street Banjo Club Wagner Morse Up the Street Morse Banjo Club 2. Invictus Huhn The House by the Side of the Road Galesian Football Songs Vocal Club 3. Specialty Act S. W. Burbank '29 4. Liebesfrend Kerisler Narcissus Nevin Narcissus Nevin Mandolin Club 5. Specialty Act J.S.B. Archer '31 6. Gold Coast Orchestra 7. Specialty Act Robert Reinhart '29 8. Landsighting Grieg The Bells of St. Mary's Adams Vocal Club 9. Football Medley Arranged by Rice Banjo Club 10. Fair Harvard Combined Clubs
...expected to go through the motions of running for the U. S. Presidency next year. Eugene V. Debs ran time and again, polling nearly a million votes in 1912 and again in 1920, his last two campaigns.* But Mr. Berger is not likely to run. Doubtless Poet Henley's "Invictus"? is one of his favorite poems as it was Mr. Deb's. But Mr. Berger is a practical captain of his soul, an editor, an essayist, a politician but not a crusader. He refused to cruise abroad on Henry Ford's "Peace Ship." He opposes the League of Nations...
...impressions of restraint and perfect command of his art. With a voice smooth though not weak, powerful though never forced, he gave a program which evinced catholicity of taste and true musicianship. Commencing with eighteenth century music of Gluck and Handel, he sang three songs of Griffes, Huhn's "Invictus". (the words are Henley's) and various French and Spanish songs. For encores he gave "Ships"--Masefield set to music highly descriptive--, "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" and more songs of his native land...