Word: warriorism
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Adapted from Julian Thompson's The Warrior's Husband, in which Katharine Hepburn made her first Broadway success a decade ago, By Jupiter makes smirking and off-color copy-which soon palls and sometimes offends-of Playwright Thompson's inverted world of ancient Amazons where the women are bold and rakish warriors and their menfolk coy and high-voiced homebodies. It winds up with a real War-Between-the-Sexes in which the invading Greeks make proper women of the Amazons by stealing the magic girdle that is the source of their strength...
...this case the boys really had something to build on. The plot is based on "The Warrior's Husband," a farce by Julian S. Thompson, acted on Broadway some ten years back by Katherine Hepburn. The time is the B. C.'s; Hippolyta is Queen of the Amazons, that tribe of women warriors who thought that man's place was in the home. She marries shy, sissified Sapiens, son of Pomposia, who has a corner on the spear and arrow market, in order to get the necessary armaments to ward off an attacking Greek army. As long as Hippolyta wears...
Shrewd Political Warrior Churchill, knowing that a resounding Grigg victory would be viewed as a victory for himself and the Government, jumped right into the middle of the campaign with a message to Sir James-a message which was calculated to erase his indiscreet boast for the Conservatives. "I am glad to know," said Churchill, "that at this grave moment in our history you are appealing to the electorate ... as a nonparty member. I hope and believe that they will emphatically endorse your appointment as Secretary of State for War, realizing that to play party politics at such a time...
...have the honor to address you in accordance with Bushido- the code of the Japanese warrior. It will be regarded [remembered] that some time ago a note advising honorable surrender was sent to the Commander in Chief of your fighting forces. To this no reply has been received...
Joseph Stalin won an Indian war bonnet of giant eagle feathers from the Indian Confederation of America, which voted him 1941's outstanding warrior, at a Manhattan powwow. The bonnet will be shipped to Moscow on the next boat leaving for Russia...