Word: invictus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel"-veterans' bonuses, roads, $50-a-month old age pensions. Sad Sam Jones promised too, but Earl was as specific as the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He made it plain that a vote for Long was an order for material improvement. He abused the newspapers. Like Huey, he recited Invictus: "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul...
...general astonishment, gangrene failed to set in. When the scraping was successfully finished, the patient sat up and called for pencil and paper. Soon the editor of London's Cornhill Magazine began publishing Henley's In Hospital-a series of poems which concluded with the now-famed Invictus...
...skylight as he talked of the Constitution. Nothing else would sway John Rankin. "When my conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus, and as he came to the final "I am the captain of my soul" his voice dropped to the stentorian stage whisper of the ancient ham actor. As he trudged up the aisle to his seat, with the conscious humility of a great performer, the House rose and gave...
Toward the end of the campaign Maverick was a sick man. Between rallies he stayed in a hospital, sent out copies of Henley's Invictus to assure his friends that his head was "bloody, but unbowed." But he knew he was cornered. Fortnight ago Quin had led him in the Democratic election by 1,295 votes...