Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government must reckon. His influence, although at the opposite end of the political scale, is practically identical to that exercised by Senator Borah in the U. S. Senate. It is, as it were - taking into account the present political status of France - as if M. Millerand had drawn his sword to cross it with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand's in a duel that might at any time end the happy life of the Painlevé Cabinet...
...King, accompanied by Queen Mary and Prince Henry, drove in semi-state to "the city" followed by a troop of the Royal Household Cavalry. At the Temple Bar, the Lord Mayor met their Majesties, surrendered to the King the keys of the City and the emblematic pearl sword of privileges. The royal party drove on to Leadenhall Street, where the King alighted from his carriage, smote a stone with a mallet, tested the stone's lie with a spirit-level, declared it "well and truly laid." The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone of a new building...
Then raised he up aloft on high his sword...
...addition to "John Keats" from her pen have come "A Dome of Painted Glass", which appeared in 1912, "Sword Blades and Poppy Seed", 1914, "Six French Poets", 1915, "Can Grandes' Castle...
...Seneca Indians, remains of the terrifying Six Nations. Are they citizens of New York, or of the U. S., or are they forever free and independent ? War usually decides such an issue. But, of course, the present question will not be submitted to the arbitrament of the sword. The question went to the U. S. Supreme Court under the following circumstances : Two years ago, a white woman claimed the estate of a Seneca. She met opposition in the Indians' own "Peace-Makers' Court," went to the New York Supreme Court, which summoned the Senecas. The proud...