Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sill of his window he meditated on the duties of the historian to mankind, when suddenly his attention was attracted by a disturbance before his cell. He saw one man strike another, whom he supposed by his dress to be an officer; the latter at once drew his sword and ran the former through the body. The wounded man felled his adversary with a stick, and then sank upon the pavement. At this juncture the guard came up and carried off the officer insensible and then the corpse of the man who had been run through...
...there are the Washington society-producers who stage the revue type of entertainment. Among these are: Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun. Claiming the Earl of Mar as an ancestor, she built herself a medieval castle in Chevy Chase, called it "Rossdhu, Braemar Forest." She displays Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword in a glass case. She has Scotch evenings at which her Tennessee husband appears in kilts. At a ball last winter she personified "The Spirit of the Middle Ages...
After one lesson, James Joseph Tunney, last week slew an old and feeble bull at one sword-thrust on the estate of Matador Algabano in Seville. Natives screeched their glee...
...Crown Council Question beyond possibility of Irish cavil. Early in the week, several of the 22 subjects designated Knights in the delayed New Year's honors list tingled at the thought of kneeling in silk breeches to be dubbed (smacked between the shoulder blades) by the naked sword of Edward of Wales acting for George V. These ceremonies were postponed to allow the Prince to represent King George at Marshal Foch's funeral...
Catholic Foch & Atheist Clemenceau. Spruce, sword-handy professors at the French War College were first to detect the military genius of Student Foch, quick to realize that he possessed a unique "geometric brain," keen, strong, supple, above all superbly balanced. Eight years after graduation he was welcomed into the faculty, achieved popularity and reputation in a few swift years, produced those master manuals of the new warfare, The Principles of War and The Conduct of War, and presently was gazetted Lieutenant Colonel without ever having commanded on a field of battle. With a future of promise unsurpassed before him, suddenly...