Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shepherd David, a pale boy staring at a man in armor; David the warrior, huge-thewed and falcon-hearted, marching before the armies of Israel into battle; King David sitting in judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp; David, old and a prophet, remembering past enchantments and past ills-this cycle in the sounds of a limited wind-choir, a piano, harmonium, celesta, double-bass and percussion, was heard last week in Manhattan -Arthur Honegger's "Symphonic Psalm," performed by the Society of the Friends of Music...
...them without other considerations. He inspired some. He angered others. He was loyal to ideals rather than to party. Few lieutenants were loyal to him through his career. He was fearless. He was true to his causes, and too sure of his convictions. He was too fierce a warrior to be a great general...
Herrmann with the help of two fast double plays was keeping the visitors helpless. Except for Crawley, who scored after his double, no Springfield warrior got to second base safely throughout the nine innings. The Crimson meanwhile was nicking Crawley, who assumed the pitching role in the fifth, for three more scores...
...dozen towns in Tennessee with telegraphic service were alarmed by the news of the "loss" of Major General Patrick, happy warrior who serves as Chief of the Army Air Service. He had left Memphis by air at 5 o'clock of an evening and had not arrived at expectant Nashville. When he landed at Nashville at 7:55 next morning, the story came out. Darkness had come earlier than expected. The General saw a 500-acre field of young corn and decided to come to earth. It was hard by the hamlet of Eva. One Mrs. B. F. Holland...
...there has appeared a volume of Joseph Conrad's early stories which bears the stamp of immaturity and which Conrad himself might well have wished unpublished." The unmentioned publisher of this book, Tales of Hearsay, is Doubleday. Page & Co. The book contains _ one story, The Soul of a Warrior, which is in the famed author's finest manner, three others are mediocre. In presenting the first story, the publishers have rendered an important service to literature; by presenting the others, they have somewhat soiled the immaculate fame of Author Conrad...