Word: warriorism
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...only warrior who emerged from the smoke of the Great Supreme Court Battle of 1937 in better shape than before was spry old Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, 78. For the judicial code was amended to allow Justices of the Supreme Court, instead of resigning, to retire with full pay ($20,000 a year) guaranteed for life. Justice Van Devanter, who for two years had wanted to retire, seized the opportunity...
After a brief consultation with Conover-Mast's high-powered lawyer, Elisha Hanson, who as counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers' Association is the most vociferous warrior for the Free Press against the New Deal, Editor Barclay announced that he would ignore the subpoena...
...oldest item in the exhibit is a, Sumerian head of a warrior in stone, dated about 2500 B. C. Other items in the sculpture and ceramics gallery include stone reliefs from the stairway at Persepolis of about 500 B. C.; and a green terra cotta lion of about 1500 B. C. from Nuzi, one of the earliest known examples of finely developed glaze technique...
...doing some reading among ancient Irish legends a few years ago I found evidence of a much more ambitious lake-dweller. Two thousand or more men did she kill in a single day, it was claimed, the victims being members of the great Irish warrior band called the Fiana. This having a crippling effect on the ranks, their captain delegated the son of the King of Greece, who understood the language of all monsters, to make a bargain with her. For 50 horses or 50 cows a day she agreed to leave the Fiana in peace...
...Madison, 24, famed free-style swimmer, 1932 Olympic champion in the 100-and 400-metre races; and Luther C. Mclvor, builder of Wenatchee, Wash.'s Rock Island Dam; at Wenatchee. Breaker of many records before she turned professional in 1932, Swimmer Madison made a film in Hollywood (The Warrior's Husband), went home to Seattle disillusioned, sold hot dogs to pay her way through nursing school...