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...right. I choose 3 p. m., Sunday, July 24 next." Astute, the Judge chose the hour during which the New York Federation of Churches had been broadcasting the past four years. He would reach the ears of his "enemy" congregations; he would make the "devil's" spear serve as the staff of Jehovah, whose aid-de-camp he pictures himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Judge Rutherford | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Robert Spear Hudson, M. P. (Conservative back-bencher): "I am sure the Government will wish to answer with a definite 'yes' or 'no' whether any of the unfortunate persons executed in Russia as 'spies' were in our employ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: International Repercussions | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

HARVARD VANDERBILT Burns c.f. s.s. Spear Chase 1.f. c.f. Jones Zarakov 3b. 3b. Owens Lord 1b. r.f. McKibbon Chauncey c. 1.f. Russell Ullman 2b. 1b. Brooks Donaghy r.f. 2b. Oliver Sullivan s.s. c. Peoples Barbee p. p. Creson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO PLAY SOUTHERNERS ON DIAMOND TODAY | 6/7/1927 | See Source »

...skin. His chest was as hairy as the pelt of a bear. His teeth were sharp as stakes. He taught his soldiery to play a game-first you took a village, then you lined up women, tore the babies from their breasts, tossed them in air, impaled them on spear points. Some say that a British propagandist, not Osman Digna, invented this game, but Colonel Horatio Kitchener (young then) took it seriously. He went after Fuzzy Wuzzy at Handub but a black archer pinked the Colonel in the neck, and the man with the ugly face escaped. For a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Fuzzy Wuzzy | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...fighting not only in behalf of China, but in behalf of the World. ... The menace of Bolshevism is a world menace and the Cantonese are Bolsheviks. . . . Whether I win or lose is personally indifferent to me, but if I lose then someone else must pick up my spear and hurl it at the heart of Communism. . . . If I win I shall stand for a just revision of China's international treaties, not for their abrogation, which is the object of the Cantonese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Best of Evils | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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