Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper and set about sketching two figures. One was a tall figure, one a short. They faced each other, the small one standing with his knees slightly bent, his shoulders hunched, his left thumb insultingly applied to his buttonish nose. In his right hand was a little wooden sword. On his head appeared a crested toy helmet, bravely capped by a toy British flag. Behind his twiddling fingers, the small creature's mouth was opened in scolding anger; his scrubby mustache and beetling eyebrows bristled. His spectacles added to the effect of impotent, scrawny anger, which the tall figure...
...daggers by night and poisoned wine-goblets; a Milanese tyrant blood-hounding men for sport; a hundred delicate situations saved by Macchiavelian wit or pretty compliments; and Bellarion, "half god, half beast," rising to power and at last claiming the lady-these are swiftest, richest Sabatini, than whom no sword-and-cloak man is more deservingly remembered, in the public's orisons...
...taxes he lays upon his readers touch their credulity (he insists in the preface that all he tells has occurred in sober fact) and their squeamishness. Here is specimen Wren carnage: "It was no moment for kid-gloved warfare nor the niceties of chivalrous fighting, and I drove my sword through the back of one man who was in the very act of yelling, 'Hack the -in pieces and throw her to the dogs,' and I cut halfway through the neck of another ... as I wheeled about, I laid one black throat open to see the bone...
...sword of Chang hangs over all Manchuria. The luxury of his robber-baron court is set off in opulent relief by the stark barbaric cruelty of his oppressive military régime. While the pen of Wu traces not seldom such poems as are expected from a Chinese gentleman, Chang scorns a lighter toy than his automatic pistol. He has been known to remark to a passing stranger: "Your face seems not unfamiliar. But I thought I ordered you beheaded last year...
LESS SERIOUS AT MRS. BEAM'S-The Theatre Guild's English importation about a man who sliced up his wives with a sword...