Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Draped completely in long streamers of black were the high walls and soaring towers of the Cathėdrale de Notre Dame. Thus, with a deed, the Catholic Church received the most illustrious and possibly the most devout of her warrior sons, the sole generalissimo who ever commanded ten million men in arms, the great and humble Catholic who reviewed his victory thus: "Without claiming the intervention of a miracle, I say that when, at a moment in history, a clear view is given to a man and he finds later that that clear view has determined movements of enormous...
...were unduly prejudiced during the campaign. I hope you say something favorable about Hoover next week. Like Paul, the Happy Warrior perhaps fought a good fight, kept his faith, but he surely finished his course. Let's hope there is laid up for him a crown of righteousness...
Died. Rev. Geoffrey Anketell ("Wood-bine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, 46, of London, famed & beloved Wartime chaplain, champion of workingmen, author (Food for the Fed-Up, The Warrior, The Woman and the Christ), rector of St. Edmund's, London; of influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption...
...worked with him declared that Renaud was violently anti-Al Smith, while Swope's lusty voice has long spouted praises of that hapless warrior. Renaud, it was said, had never been able to forget, let alone forgive, the Germans. Swope on the other hand is critical of jingo patriotism. And in religious matters, Renaud was described as uncompromisingly Protestant. The Swopian World's news columns were always wide open to the Catholics...
...remnants of the Imperial Army have remained fanatically loyal to Nicholas. Last week, in Nice, the Grand Duke, stricken with pneumonia, sank low, and lower. Oxygen was finally administered and some recovery noted; but tearful, fatalistic members of Nicholas' entourage seemed to sense and fear that the old warrior was joining his last battle with Death...