Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whether" by the chaste Vesta Volodia is out of the Russian spirit, though in itself a good story. In this it is robbed of the gentle sting of parody. "Silent as a cat he rose to his feet and swung his great two-handed sword over her head." This is romance, not realism. And I feel sure Vesta's compatriots wouldn't let their sense of romance run away with them after her fashion...
...Benito Mussolini, whose diplomatic tenacity consolidated by Treaty from the Yugo-Slavs what the sword and pen of the swashbuckling poet had made the great national ambitioin of the Italians, went the Order of the Annunziata, the highest honor that can be given by the Italian Crown. There are only seven in the order; the recipient is entitled to sit in the Royal presence and to .call the Sovereign "Cousin...
...President Eliot sat down, the whole assemblage resumed their places. The Sheriff of Middlesex County,--a white haired old man in the dark blue uniform of a civil war veteran, walked to the center of the platform and pounded three times upon the floor with his gold-hilted sword as he said "The assembly will now come to order...
...sword and shield that know not rust...
...days after signing the agreement Emperor Simmons founded the Knights of the Flaming Sword. He denied that he had sold all his "rights in connection" with "the Klan" but added that in order to "sever all relations in every manner, shape or form" his royalty of $1,000 a month was discounted and he had been paid $90,000 in cash. He added "a new movement, not antagonistic to the Klan, was launched here [Jacksonville] yesterday by citizens of Florida and elsewhere, of a national scope, of which I have the honor to be the head...