Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much to say that what we are now here considering today is the question of plunging a dagger into the very heart of democracy...
...taking the weapon of patronage from him. The division of the pre-audit and the post-audit functions which caused so much opposition will place the control of expenditure in the hands of Congress where it rightfully belongs--and where it theoretically resides today. To call the bill "a dagger in the heart of democracy" ignores the fact that governmental inefficiency is a far more serious threat to representative institutions than is the possible misuse of power in the President's hands...
...Said, the Sultan managed to reach town one day ahead of Albania's Princesses Myzeyen, Ruhijé and Maxhide, resumed his royal status in Washington's Union Station where he emerged from his train dressed in native costume of brown robe, white undershirt, jeweled turban and dagger. Promptly and rudely nicknamed "Sultan Muskrat" by Washington reporters, Oman's monarch naturally received the same amount of official attention that would have gone to England's George VI. After a 21-gun salute and exhibition drill from the Third Cavalry and 16th Field Artillery, he was guest...
...some day come and take her away. Instead of a Prince, however, a fierce huntsman comes, sent by the Queen to take Snow White into the forest and kill her. So touching is her innocence, so terrible her scream of panic when she sees the sharp flame of the dagger, that the huntsman, rough as he is, cannot execute his mission; he sets Snow White free...
...inquest, which may have been a whitewash, these four conspirators stayed at Dame Bull's tavern all day. At six o'clock they ate supper in their private room. Marlowe stretched out on the bed and the others, facing him, began playing backgammon. Frizer's dagger was hanging over the back of a chair within Marlowe's reach. Marlowe and Frizer may have argued over the bill. Poley may have been under orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer's knife, whereupon...