Word: warriorism
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...that the Old Warrior believed that the "mortal danger" of Soviet aggression had in any way diminished. Earnestly, he warned "all the nations who would rather die than submit to Communist rule" that "hard sacrifice and constant toil" are still urgently necessary if the free world is to preserve its "right to live." But Churchill's warning was less dramatic than his optimistic forecast, and in war-weary Europe, his speech was taken to mean what too many Europeans wanted it to mean: that the time has come to relax...
...Warrior. Ritchie-Hook is anything but a saint. Like many a Crusader, he fights simply because he loves "blood and gunpowder." Hand-to-hand scrapping is his ideal: "Everything else [in war]," he assures Guy, "is just bumf and telephones." His pursuit of his ideal has left him with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing...
They are The Golden Warrior, by Hope Muntz, The Golden Band, by Edith Simon (TIME, April 28), and The Man on a Donkey, by H.F.M. Prescott, published last week in the U.S. All three novels are set in England during the Middle Ages or early modern times. All three were written by scholarly and literate Englishwomen. All three have something of the graciously precise air of old tapestry...
...Warrior King of France, born 1553, assassinated 1610, and still remembered affectionately for his comment: "I should like to see a chicken in the pot of every Frenchman on Sundays...
...gave her a screen test. She was making $79.50 a week in The Warrior's Husband, but she demanded $1,500 a week from Hollywood, and meant it. Nevertheless, when RKO actually met her stiff price, Kate phoned her close friend Laura Harding and said: "They must be insane out there. You'd better come to the Coast with...