Word: sword
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...international smoker, combined with an entertainment in which members of various nationalities will take part, is to be given by the Cosmopolitan Club in its rooms in Holyoke House this evening at 8.30 o'clock for members and invited guests. The features will be a sword drill by the German members, shuttlecock by the Chinese, and an exhibition of jiu-jitsu by the Japanese. The American part will consist in sleight-of-hand tricks. Singing of national anthems by the national groups of members will end the entertainment...
...former is one that speaks of war as a science of attacking a weaker opponent and getting out of the way of a stronger. In "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" he shows that an apparently helpless and unskilled woman is stronger in an emergency than the power of the sword. "Mrs. Warren's Profession," though known as "immorality dramatized," is really an enquiry into the self-complacency of modern society. "Candida" is a criticism of a modern socialist clergyman who is a good preacher, a good man, and surrounded by goodness, but lacks reality, and the power of accomplishing good...
...brilliant parts has made little of himself simply because he was never obliged to put forth all his powers. A man of means frequently fails, just because of that fact, to become a means for the highest ends. Occasionally crises come in which the Christ appears bearing the sword and demanding utter self-renunciation. No one here, almost under the shadow of Memorial Hall, can doubt it. Today, however the demand usually comes in a different form, namely, that a man shall keep his possessions that he may give himself, for there is a vast amount of work needing...
...Fire and Sword in the Caucasus," by L. Villari...
...fruits and bread, which were completely charred in the conflagrations by which the lake dwellings of the stone and bronze ages were destroyed, are also on exhibition. Seventy illustrations of a few wild flowers from the eastern United States, painted by Mrs. C. D. Murdoch, and specimens of "Silver Sword" collected from the brink of the volcano Holeakala, Mani, Hawaiian Islands, have also been acquired...