Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson, 97,"oldest living West Pointer"; in Washington. He entered just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...
...days when the Black Prince shattered the Genoese cross-bowmen at Crecy, and Sir John Chandos was the model of knightly chivalry for all the young squires of England, to be a duke or a marquis, or even a baronet, meant something. When the sword of the sovereign touched a blood-stained shoulder, all the world knew that the favored one had accomplished a mighty deed of valor, or that the army of King Philip had lost another eagle. The golden spur implied bravery, and honorable achievement...
...weapon, and for Monsieur le Comte to be seen in public without his hilt resting beneath his left hand was an occasion for the wildest conjecture. As is the case with almost everything else, however, the halo, of romance which formerly hung about the point of the sword has congealed into a small tape-wrapped button, and the wrought gold basket work of the hilt has become a guard of ordinary steel. There are, however, one or two consolatory features. From being the defense of the aristocratic few, sword-play, by means of fencing, has developed into a form...
General Mulcahy is widely regarded as Ireland's premier soldier. His temporary failure as a Cabinet Minister, due in part to the impetuosity of youth, has not detracted from the glamor which sparks from his sword...
Mulcahy's corruscating sword...