Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north of his peninsula, he looks out on the gilded bronze statue of St. Michael standing 165 ft. above the waves on the Gothic spire of the fortress-abbey Mont St. Michel; to the south in the harbor of St. Nazaire, he now sees an American doughboy, sword in hand, eagerly poised atop the back of an eagle with graceful, outspread wings...
...hours later a Dutch soldier, guarding the frontier at Eysden, was struck dumb when a man in a long military cloak approached him, hesitated, said: "I am the Emperor of Germany. Here is my sword...
...Soviet Chargé d'Affaires, M. Rozejolev, attended wearing satin knee breeches and a jeweled sword. Ambassador Houghton was clad in ordinary evening dress...
Bismarck, on being entertained by a reception committee of students, turned to one particularly badly scarred representative and asked whether he used his face for a guard instead of a sword...
Dueling in military circles, on the other hand, is a genuine duel, fought to redress an insult, with either sword, rapier or pistol. These naturally often end fatally. Times change and therefore such duels have been relegated to the past as mentioned in your article...