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The martyr amid golden fires Cried out: "While Red Knight fought -with Black, The White Lady, with both their squires, Made the beast with double back; And while the great St. Austin preached, So air grew gold with angels' wings, A beggar scratched because he itched; I perish to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Invasion: Preview and Prevention The last time that an enemy (William the Conqueror) successfully invaded Great Britain, he assembled 700 transports (open barges) at St. Valéry-sur-Somme, waited for a fair wind, embarked an Army of 5,000 men, including 2,000 mobile armored units (mounted knights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Invasion: Preview and Prevention | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Last week with one more month to go before she graduates from high school, gives up her column and leaves for college. Sue celebrated her 17th birthday. So popular is "Subdebs and Squires" that it is now a regular feature of the Sunday Star.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columnist for Kids | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

There are three Tennessees. There is East Tennessee, the home of shrewd mountain traders, Republicans, the Great Smokies, Knoxville and the TVA. There is Middle Tennessee, the Cumberland plateau, a land of bluegrass, rich farms, horsey squires (who keep a fighting-cock in the tobacco barn), of Nashville, "Athens of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

In those days British peers, squires and gentlemen were the nearly undisputed masters of the State, and in 1873 Mayor Joseph Chamberlain of Birmingham was considered "vulgar." He acknowledged that he was a Radical, and was darkly suspected of being both a socialist and a republican -that is, a traitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Price Peace? | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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