Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...landed at Valona and offered himself as King of Albania, saying: " I have toured the world many times, killing lions, tigers and hippopotami. I will kill your enemies just as willingly." He was forced by Germany and Austria to withdraw his offer. In the war he "offered his sword " to the Allies in turn, but without success. He even offered his steam yacht, the Mekong, to the French Government, but they refused it; the British Navy, however, accepted it. He turned his residence, the Château de Randan, into a hospital for wounded soldiers...
FORTUNE'S FOOL -Sabatini -Houghton Mifflin ($2.00). Colonel Randall Holies, sometime of the Parliamentary Army that crushed Charles I, regicide's son and broken adventurer, found little scope in the Merry England of Charles II for his sword. Hounded by poverty and evil fortune, he stooped at last to lend himself to a discreditable plot of the Duke of Buckingham's-the abduction of the beautiful actress, Sylvia Farquharson, for his Grace's amorous purposes. But the vile act once accomplished, and the well known Sylvia discovered to be his boyhood sweetheart, Holies proved properly heroic...
...oath to her brother's service? for a term of years. Shortly thereafter comes the sinister Due de Tours (Wallace Beery) seeking her love. How she repulsed him and how the servant rescued her from his drunken embrace comprise the burden of the plot. There is abundant death and sword play. There is sentiment and spectacle. There is an absence of pretense...
Johanniterorden. Prince K. Eitel Friedrich, second son of the Kaiser, Grand Master of the German section of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (Deutsche Johanniterorden), officiated at a meeting of the Order in Potsdam. Der Feld-marshall von Hindenburg, as Sword Bearer, was in attendance. The Prince, clad in a black robe and " decorated with flashing crosses," raised six members, chosen Monarchists, to knighthood in the Order by tapping them on the shoulder with a sword passed to him by the Sphinxlike Hindenburg...
...what Justice Ford's unmarried daughter thinks about it all??Gertrude Atherton?Black Oxen?hoping against hope that the Steinach process of rejuvenation will not be applied to various literary prominencies?books about sex?a few books not about sex?Sabatini and the gorgeous return of cloak-and-sword...