Word: paladins
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...with a rat's head from the grave of the stillborn Antichrist; scientists have lately suggested that it is bred from putrid fish. Rising out of the East, it has crept down the centuries, a slow, fatal smoke, eating in secret. When Godfrey de Bouillon rode against the Paladin in the 11th Century, it withered the flesh of his captains under their painted armor, followed their retreating banners into Europe. Contagious, it is never hereditary...
Captain Charles O'Hearn, no doubt, will feel at a loss without his ancient rival George Owen Jr. on the ice,--and the University would like, almost as much as Captain O'Hearn, to see its former Paladin perform. Unfortunately, the paths of glory lead but to graduation. But there are, around Harvard, still a few men who can play hockey-- to use a boastful expression--and perhaps Captain O'Hearn can be consoled. No one wants to smash Yale's dreams of empire, of course--as Mr. Heywood Broun philosophized, "Some of my best friends are Yale...
...restless fellow looked around for a way to finance his trip. In the Italian quarter prize fighting was in vogue. Many lads from the rough neighborhood were earning comfortable purses. Raggini dreamed that he would become a paladin of the ring and gather enough money to finance his studies, would fight his way with his fists to Parnassus. He practiced boxing and embarked upon a pugilistic career. But his throat was better than his knuckles. Instead of the pugilistic reputation that would have got him large pay, he encountered mostly hard punchings. His own blows were weak, his opponents...
...much experience and success as a player for the motion pictures. He is, too, an athlete, a tremendously strong fellow, one of the best amateur wrestlers in Germany and a boxer who, if he may be a little bit slow and cumbersome for American boxing ideals, is quite a paladin with the fists in Central Europe...
...determined from a study of the few scraps that remain of orchestra scores of that remote composer's other works. Bodanzky is, at the same time, the gayest and j oiliest of companions, who gives huge laughter to comic tales and sits like a great paladin to watch a game of cards. The metropolis is to have another symphony orchestra. The conductor will be Mr. Stransky. The organization will be on a democratic, coop- erative basis. It is this last phase which arouses the human heart. Certainly democracy is noble, and cooperation the delight of humanitarians. In this...