Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subaltern of the Guards struck a policeman with the flat of his sword because he failed to salute the King's colors, which were carried past him oy the Guards' Regiment...
...want to know where the circus freaks come from? The Billboard will tell you. "WANTED for 20-in-l-FREAKS. At all times. Glass- Blower, Sword Swallower, Fat Woman, Punch and Judy, Tattooed Lady...
Some lonely sword-swallower will be happy when he sees that advertisement ! " Wanted," again, " lady who has had experience in Iron...
...first round Signor Giunta received a blow in the abdomen, but, as he had managed partly to parry the thrust, he was only struck with the flat of his opponent's sword. In the second round both combatants were wounded, Forni in the face and right hand, Giunta in the right arm. The doctors then stopped the bout...
Lion tamers and sword swallowers ply unique and dangerous trades. The movies have discovered the human fly setting bricks at the top of a chimney and hanging signs under the clouds. Some people can never find a niche for themselves in the dull trades of "butcher, baker, and candlestick maker". It is India, however, which lays claim to the most unusual callings-at least if one may judge from a Lucknow dispatch, which describes the work of the Monkey Deporter, the Corpse Fender, and the Shahbash-Wala...