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...court began to deliberate. Rear Admiral Bailey marched from the room. Just for a second he glanced at the sword he left behind. When he came back he would know instantly if he were innocent or guilty depending on whether his sword's hilt or its point was toward him. The court martial followed tradition. When Rear Admiral Bailey returned, the hilt lay toward him, meaning acquittal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Hilts, One Point | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...then retired from the Navy, on half pay. Next day the long line of' gold cuffs and epaulets proceeded to try Captain Tower. Though the Hood under Captain Tower had apparently made no move to avoid the collision. Captain Tower's sword came back to him hilt first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Hilts, One Point | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...craftsmen in leather aprons finish the sword on which they had been working for three days. Moving from one anvil to another (each with a different ring), Kenneth Lynch saw that the blade was drawn, beveled, tempered, burnished; the quillons bent and chased to form a swept hilt and the grip wrapped with steel wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Swordsmith | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...South Sea island, was the dramatic success of 1922. Its profanity, its treatment of the problem of "sex-starvation," its revelations on the Freudian significance of dreams about "the mountains of Nebraska" titivated the Harding era. The late Jeanne Eagels played Sadie Thompson, the raffish trollop, up to the hilt, and after the play had run two years on Broadway she was established as one of the U. S. theatre's legendary great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rain | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

Backed to the hilt by President Roosevelt, Coordinator Eastman proposed to transform U. S. transportation into an integrated national industry by the following methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Eastman Report | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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