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...modern national administration. Henry himself grew under the cardinal's tutelage-one of the King's first diplomatic coups was a pious book presented to the Vatican, which won him the title still borne by British monarchs: "Defender of the Faith." Said the King's jester, wiser than his cardinal: "Prithee, Good Harry, let thee and I defend one another and leave the Faith alone to defend itself...
...game almost wholly dedicated to the most vitriolic attacks on Princeton and its conduct in athletic events against Harvard. In its editorial, it commented, "Lampy looks forward to no chivalrous exhibition of sportsmanship; it will be a glorious free-for-all masquerading under the name of football and the Jester proposes to make the most of them. The Princeton brawl comes but once a year; it may never come again...
...quick succession, E.C. Tarlov renders a mixer romance with unique sensitivity, the Jester pummels the Crimson with sledge-hammer subtlety, and J.D. Stanley relieves the long gray columns of tedium with spasmodic cartoons...
...Woodward Stakes, then came on along the rail to drive home briskly and beat both Gallant Man and Bold Ruler-a pair of thoroughbreds that were theoretically fighting it out for the title, Horse of the Year. On the same afternoon, George Widener's Jester, two-year-old son of Tom Fool, won the $114,705 Futurity, a victory earmarking him the Horse of Next Year...
...literature, the theatrical reminiscence. His pride rings out most clearly when he recounts how heads of state sent emissaries to his studio to ask for originals of his caricatures to decorate the walls of their vanity. This may help explain how the boy radical became a sort of licensed jester at the court of his political enemies. Even "Colonel Blimp," Low's greatest gift to the popular mythology of politics, somehow went wrong. They made a film about Blimp, and it turned into a defense of all the stuffy traditions Low had spent his life deriding...