Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke of Wellington celebrated in his Piccadilly home, last week, his 80th birthday. As a grandson of the "Iron Duke" he holds the highest foreign titles possessed by any British peer, is the Netherlandic Prince of Waterloo and a Portuguese Knight of the Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword, and ranks in Spain as a Grandee of the First Class. His 19,200 English acres bring him far more in revenue, of course, than the 99 year-old tribute of little Belgium...
...sight for the gods which no man paid to see was the royal guest from the Netherlands, the good-hearted but extremely pompous Prince Consort of Queen Wilhelmina. As this personage moved about Oslo, with tinkling spurs, jingling medals and a large clanking sword, it was permissible to exclaim: "There goes His Royal Highness, Prince Hendrik Vladimir Albertus Ernst of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince of the Netherlands, Duke of Mecklenburg, Vice-Admiral of the Fleet, Lieutenant-General of the Netherlandic and Indo-Netherlandic Armies, Chevalier of the Order of the Black Eagle, of the Order of the Seraphihs, of St. Andrew...
...Hypnotized Rabbit." From all this it must not be supposed that the causes of the present civil war are purely religious. There is also the very strong if not major element of personal rivalry?"dog eat dog" ?among Mexico's many men of the sword. It is of the very first significance that, last week, neither the government nor Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela laid any great stress on such appeals to principle, credulity or reason as helped to win the Great War. Any fight in Mexico is, at bottom, just dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean...
...these three men of the sword, and to many of their Parliamentary colleagues, there is something almost of divine providence in the idea of turning Palestine - which Great Britain holds under a mandate from the League of Nations - into a Dominion...
...conquest of all China by Marshal (now President) Chiang Kai-shek was completed almost a year ago (TIME, June 25), but last week a big and a little piece of bad news made it seem that Mr. Chiang must lay down his presidential fountain pen, gird on his old sword and Mauser pistol, and sally forth from Nanking to conquer all over again two great provinces. Shantung and Hunan...