Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After luncheon? at which the Dictator appeared as a Polish general with sword and spurs? both statesmen settled quietly to the business which had brought Marshal Pilsudski to Geneva; the Polish-Lithuanian frontier crisis (TIME, Dec. 12). Already M. Briand was in confidential possession of all the facts. On previous days he had several times received the Prime Minister of Lithuania, stocky, spiky-haired Professor Augustine Valdemaras. There had been a four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland...
...regarded him as an upstart and a renegade. The difference is not merely political; behind all there lies an inscrutable 'tissue of venemous personal hatred. For the nonce, Trotsky is in the discard. Who can say but that the fate of Robespierre and Danton hangs like Damocles' sword over his head...
...Nicholas F., increased the family fortune. He supported many charities, chiefly Catholic; once he sold all his race horses and gave the proceeds away. For his benefactions Pope Pius XI made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory and a private chamberlain of the Cape and Sword; last December King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy made him Knight Commander of the Crown of Italy...
...Caesar, Mr. Thaddeus presents the following picture: "Sword in one hand, the incendiary torch in the other, he strides across Gaul, his thin-lipped mouth twisted into a smile as the eagles of his legions scream false promises to the natives.... But legend has chosen to whitewash the tawdry walls of Rome, so that it is Caesar, the far seeing statesman, rather than Caesar the bandit-adventurer, who is in the habit of stepping forward immaculate to take curtain calls as one of history's heroes and supermen...
Richard Arlen, as the abducted officer, is sufficient for the part, and William Powell plays well the half-comedy role of hostile sheik and would-be bride-snatcher. The comedy is administered by two Americans with a movie camera, but Miss Daniels's antics dominate every episode. Much sword-play, swinging from chandeliers and tapestries, plus the movie machinery dispute the ultimate Bedouin attack, as the masculine hero engages a firing-squad. The picture is well produced and the photography is excellent, and the hero-heroine combines a mild Valentino and Fairbanks quite successfully...