Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warrior-with-Gods, in "North is Black," fell in love with a rich white girl, was disgraced for cheating at cards. Taught by whites, he had thought cheating was part of the game. To unmask the girl's white lover, who also cheated, Warrior-with-Gods planned a fearful revenge. Waiting until the stakes were high and a large crowd was playing, he watched the game impassively, suddenly drew a knife and pinned the lover's hand to the table. An extra ace was under the impaled palm...
Devereux, posed for the young drummer boy (TIME, May 9, 1932). The model for the elderly drummer was the artist's father, Rev. Samuel Willard. The bandaged fifer was Hugh Mosher, Civil Warrior, who actually fifed all the time he was posing...
Long before the Roman Catholic Church deployed its forces for a well-publicized attack on the cinema industry and launched its Legion of Decency, U. S. Protestantism had produced many an able independent warrior. One such was Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of The Churchman, liberal Episcopal fortnightly, oldest (131 years) religious journal in English. Munching popcorn and pounding out Churchman editorials on his typewriter, Dr. Shipler called Tsar Will Hays a "window-dresser" and "office boy'' in 1929, later smoked out the fact that on the Hays payroll were two employes of the Federal Council of Churches...
...Gustav Stromsvik was startled to find stone staircases leading down to subterranean galleries never before suspected. There were cruciform rooms with floors painted scarlet, amphitheatres containing monoliths and tinted statues with bead collars, canals and sewage systems connecting underground buildings. At the feet of a towering statue of a warrior, Mr. Stromsvik found a pair of exquisitely wrought boots of pure gold, two inches high...
...altar flowers on a given Sunday can express the season-white for All Saints' Day, red for Whitsunday-or they may be a memorial. . . . For instance, one Sunday the flowers at the Church of the Ascension were given in memory of a warrior son lost on the field of battle. Glorious spears of gladiolus were selected in a vivid, singing red-a most triumphant note all through the worship, that...