Word: scimitar
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...mental processes. He has a beautiful collection of unused chessmen; sundry gargoyles stare out from his walls; there is a mug used at Nicky's coronation; framed on the wall hang a pair of European Court Fans; on a window seat, in the sun, sparkles a jewel handled Moorish Scimitar; and over there, in a glass case, is a death mask of Oliver Cromwell, Upstairs are the proud portraits of Cromwell and the collection of tools. In some dark closet hangs the Frock Coat, which the Professor will don each Sunday teatime...
...policemen are as genteel as tall, bland Thomas Wentworth Russell, whose family (the Dukes of Bedford) have been potent in British politics almost continuously since Henry VIII. Few policemen are as magnificent, for his white dress tunic with its glittering scimitar is splattered with stars and medals. Few policemen are busier, for Thomas Wentworth Russell is not only Chief of Cairo's police, but spends much of his time as Director of the Narcotics Intelligence Bureau of Egypt, a position equivalent to that of world's chief narcotic sleuth. Because of his intense campaign to shut...
...just such fashion have Partners Howard and Scripps and General Manager William Waller Hawkins set about "cleaning up the territory" wherever there was one newspaper too many. Not counting merged properties they now have 25 newspapers. Sometimes, as in Akron (Times-Press), Knoxville (News-Sentinel), Memphis (Press-Scimitar) they have bought. Elsewhere, as in Des Moines, Norfolk, Terre Haute, Sacramento, they have moved out. For Scripps-Howard, no cluttered fields...
Does anyone doubt this? Curious goings on at Angora last week proved it again up to the Turkish scimitar's hilt. At no end of trouble and no small risk to himself Dictator Kemal, the apostle of "Europeanization" who made Turks take off the fez and put on the hat, provided his beloved country last week with what every real European republic has: a multi-party system, and its result, a crisis...
...sick man of Europe" who attacked Greece in 1822. It was the conquering greedy Turk, bloody scimitar in hand, who hacked his way through the country, finally battered at the walls of Argos. Demetrios Ypsilanti held the citadel with 300 henchmen against 30,000 Turks. For three days Hero Ypsilanti did not budge; thereafter his name was ranked in Greek legend with Leonidas of Thermopylae...