Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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September began to wane and the friends and enemies of The Happy Warrior* agreed that, so far, he had not got off the defensive...
...Ingram, Bishop of London. Potent have been the Archbishops of Canterbury in English history. Augustine (597-605) established Christianity in England. Bertha, queen of the fourth Saxon king of Kent, Aethelbert, was already a Christian and gave Augustine a church at Canterbury, then a seaport. Thomas Becket (1162-70), warrior-bishop, first helped Henry II subordinate Church to State. But when he became Archbishop of Canterbury he fought for Church against State. Courtiers foully murdered and mangled him on the very steps of his altar and Henry II did an abject penance. Stephen Langton (1207-22) persuaded Pope Innocent...
...Warrior of Wit. Too many generals lack wit. Indeed the quality is thought fatal in a military man, or policeman. But General Obregon's buoyant, spontaneous wit bubbled at convivial moments like champagne-to which he was not addicted, being an advocate of temperance, not prohibition...
More than 24 hours after tall Franklin Delano Roosevelt had introduced New York's "happy warrior"; after Maryland's Ritchie, Kentucky's Barkley and Wyoming's Ross and several others had seconded him, with phrases ranging from "this sea of faces" to "a living, pulsating, understanding heart"?the balloting began. Soon the name of Alfred Emanuel Smith belonged to the almanacs...
...Obregon, 1920-24) can be re-elected (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). They have caused to be shot as revolutionaries the only other presidential candidates, General Arnulfo Gomez (he of the Kaiser-like mustachios) and General Francisco Serrano (TIME, Nov. 21 et ante}. Therefore, General Alvaro Obregon, stern, one-armed warrior, rich rancher, ruthless patriot, was unanimously elected President of Mexico last week?there being no other candidate...