Word: sword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days every year with him at Juarez where he was a corps commander. He fled from Mexico when Federalist troops were trying to put him in front of a firing squad. Right now he is the most peaceful-minded man in the United States. He has put away his sword and his pistol and is looking for business opportunities-possibly in Chicago. He left my house this morning and I can't say where...
...detachment of the Papal Army, elaborately upholstered Gendarmes in fur busbies, varnished jack boots, flashing sabres. In a knot of red, pink, crimson, purple and white, stood the Grand Master of the Holy Hospice, the Secret Almoner, the Pope's Sacristan, Secret Chamberlains, Knights of the Cape and Sword, Noble Guards, Cardinals, Lay Gentlemen-in-Waiting...
Famed but false is the story that infatuated Victoria dubbed Subkoff "Baron" herself with a sword belonging to her ex-Imperial brother. Her diary is the best proof that Subkoff was presented to her as a Russian nobleman exiled but honorable. Actually his father was a cobbler. He himself has admitted practicing the lowest profession?pimping?at Marseilles, where he guided low-minded tourists to the foulest stews in France. But when presented to Victoria, eleven years after the death of her husband Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Alexander Subkoff seemed personable, a gentleman, an "interesting" young...
...festooned box was the splendiferous Lord Mayor's coachman, his fat calves gleaming in pink silk stockings, a plumed tricornered hat on his head, a gaudy rosette of ribbons in his buttonhole. From one window of the coach peeped the Civic Mace, out of the other stuck the Civic Sword. Along in glory on the back seat sat Most Worshipful Sir William, his robes of scarlet, black and gold, a cocked hat on his head and his heavy chain of office round his neck. In his hand he held a bouquet of sweet smelling herbs (hygienic relic of the Great...
...Nationalist forces are holding their own but are not advancing at present for geographical reasons." Startling was a Japanese despatch from Hankow reporting a great "People's Army" victory in Honan Province, and streams of wounded Nationalists pouring into the city of Tengchow "the majority suffering from sword and bayonet wounds, indicating that the People's Army were engaging in hand to hand combat, to conserve ammunition...