Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later lain the body of the British "Unknown Soldier" as it was borne to rest beneath the white Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last week the unique gun carriage bore not the unknown but the best known British soldier. On the flag which draped the coffin lay Earl Haig's sword, unsheathed, and beside it his Field Marshal's baton and massive white plumed...
...somewhat similar in title, have been translated into cinema by the Paramount Co. The first was Beau Geste. The second, in no wise a sequel, is Beau Sabreur, which is nobody's name but a phrase applied to Major Beaujolais, the hero, because he is handy with a sword...
...handy with a sword that when a fat old sheik, bargaining over a contract with the French Government, suggests a clause which will present him with the possession of a beautiful American woman, Major Beaujolais dares to refuse with equable asperity. Then there are several reels of sharp sabre-play, sand, and mine explosions. Lastly, the old sheik accepts a contract which omits the tur-pitudinous Santa clause; the lady properly rewards her sabreur...
...catlike swiftness to satisfy the unreasonable demands of his public. Stripping off his rain coat he stepped before the bull, swirling the garment through classic florcos as though it were a bullfighter's cloak, "Go Alfonso!" he cried to a friend in the crowd, "Run! Get me a sword! Our little one (gesturing at the bull, now beginning to charge) will die when you return. . . ." Charged the bull-deftly drawn by Fortuna's flirting rain coat away from the crowds and toward a stone wall against which horns scraped as the master leaped clear. Eight times this sport...
...idle figure of speech. The name "Bilbo," well-loved by collectors of people's-names-that-mean-something, is an antique word for "sword...