Word: warriorism
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Before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Pittsburgh last week. Dr. Matthews rose to his full height and, with the authority of a onetime (1912) moderator and an everlasting warrior, denunciated: "The Federal Council must be taught to under stand that the Presbyterian Church is not going to stand for ill-advised utterances on moral subjects, and if it cannot be taught, our financial support [$18,000] will be withdrawn. [Let] the Federal Council be instructed to hold its peace on questions of delicacy, morality and integrity until we have an opportunity...
...Matahi, and the girl, Reri, escape from their own island to a more civilized one where he becomes the best pearl diver in the harbor. One night he dives into dangerous water to get a pearl which will enable them to go further away from the pursuing warrior Hitu. When Matahi gets back, Hitu has already prevailed on Reri to return. He sees their boat, swims after it, sinks as the boat grows small across the water...
...Birmingham. Various mercantile and mining ventures have kept him busy, have given him, says he, millions of dollars, also have taken millions of dollars away. His great interest for many years has been to build a railroad from Muscle Shoals to Mobile Bay, running along the valley of the Warrior River, passing through lands rich in coal and iron. The charter for this road, to be called the Mobile & West Alabama Railroad, was granted 35 years ago, but Col. May recites a sad story of how other railroad groups have blocked the project. But his hopes for the road...
Saad was called "the son of the bitch" for the simple reason that his mother had been a Christian, captured by the tribe on one of their forays against those dogs. As his father was an able warrior, Saad was only half-handicapped. But Saad's spirit was proud, and he resented fiercely his anomalous position. When his tribe meditated a raid against the fat town of Kasir, Saad was sent ahead as a spy to do what he could when his elders and betters stormed the place...
...Hutchinson made many a reader weep with his bestseller, If Winter Comes. Four years ago he married Una Rosamond Bristow-Gapper, who wrote to him admiringly on a postcard. Simon is their only child. Other books: This Freedom, One Increasing Purpose, The Uncertain Trumpet, The Clean Heart, The Happy Warrior...