Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Price of Peace. In 1938 the old warrior fell into a sudden coma, ill with rheumatism, arthritis, uremic poisoning. He was 78. The newspapers trotted out their ready-made obits. But two months later he showed up at his son's wedding. In 1939 he made his last pilgrimage to France...
...Creek Park. He threatened to move to a hotel. Major General Shelley Marietta, head of Walter Reed, talked him out of it. He refused to pose for a picture, even at the request of the War Department. To hell with the War Department. He was living out an old warrior's life...
...Spanish generals. But in this long catalogue of enemies and enmity the most merciless, damaging and unrelenting were the English poets and prose writers, and the spirit of sardonic mockery they expressed, not only against the Duke but against the conservative principles for which he was the ablest warrior...
...compass-oldest known navigating instrument-has been revolutionized. Last week Bendix Aviation Corp. announced a new automatic compass that makes the old magnetic needle* look as obsolete as a warrior's spear. The new "gyro flux gate" compass, designed especially for aircraft, is already at work guiding United Nations flyers unerringly to their targets...
Last week wife No. 2, ex-secretary Arline Peak Fear, also applied for divorce, tried to explain it all to Judge Henry M. Willis. Said she: Ralph Gordon Fear married his first wife only 800 years ago. But when he was a Roman warrior (2,300 years ago, to be exact) he had married an earlier incarnation of Arline Peak Fear. Result: wife No. 1 recognized wife No. 2's seniority, quietly got her divorce and $2,000,000, Describing the first meeting of Mr. Fear and the two Mrs. Fears, Arline Fear testified: "Out at the desert cottage...