Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affair reacted upon the Laurentano family in intricate fashion. The prince's vulgar bride eloped with the widower of the murdered lady-friend. Lando barely escaped the island where he had abetted the riots. Sicily was put under martial law, and the old Garibaldino Mauro, frenzied by the impertinence of upstart socialists, fared forth with his medals and pistols of 1860 to assist the state troopers. These unimaginative souls mistook him for a rioter, and shot him in a street fight...
...Most Noble Order of the Bath. The order is primarily militant. Civilians aspire to the Garter, but seldom to the Bath. Therefore last week it was a military pageant which moved with clanking swords through London, entered famed Westminster Abbey, traversed the long nave, and stamped with martial tread into the majestic, vaulted Chapel of Henry...
...convicted by the marshaling of the writer's facts. He is made to stand forth as a fanatic as convinced of divine inspiration and protection as any divine-right Stuart monarch ever could be. But the dominant impression gained of the man is one of militaristic might, of the martial power that was the weakness of the Protectorate, the most direct contributing cause of the Restoration...
...bullet no bigger round than a seed-pearl would kill a man if projected through his heart, brain or spinal cord. But martial experience has found 30/100 of an inch to be about the ideal diameter for man-killing bullets. The prize-winning Thompson weapon is .30 calibre...
...snob, one of those likeable snobs whose hauteur is inherent; he did not consciously single out his richer patrons for special attention. Nonetheless it was the epicures who remembered him, and the princes and the millionaires. Other people were a little frightened by M. Ritz, even intimidated by his martial cognomen or his last name that sounded sharp and hard...