Word: sword
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held Peiping (TIME, June 27, 1927 et seq.) indulged his habit of doing something so fantastic that today only Adolf Hitler does it: he caused the heads of Communists to be actually chopped off and "roll in the sand." Old Chang's executioner with his great broad sword, and sometimes Old Chang with his gold-plated Mauser pistol, killed many more Reds than ever the Nazis have. He also, on his own responsibility as no gentleman and a War Lord, burst open Soviet Embassy offices at Peiping and filled the world for weeks with evidence of its machinations which...
...left of the door, Alberich's hand reaches for the Rhine gold, while the hands of the Rhine Maidens attempt to restrain him. At the right is the curse of the Ring, the mailed fist thrust through the Ring and holding a sword, which symbolizes the threat of destruction with fire and sword by those who wield the power of the Ring...
...Germany must have a peace, supported not by the palm-leaves of lacrimonious hired female-mourners, but founded by the victorious sword of a Master-People which brings the world into the service of a higher Kultur...
...Jews are like maggots in a decaying body. The black-haired Jew with satanic joy in his face is ever lying in wait for some innocent Aryan girl. . . . No folk can remove this [Jewish] fist from its gullet except by the sword. Only the gathered, concentrated strength of a powerfully rising national passion is able to oppose the international enslavement of peoples. Such a procedure is, however, and remains, a bloody...
...endeared him to the public as his rustication of Montfleury, the contemporary ham. And who has not cursed whatever gods may be, during the torture of any especially unfortunate and protracted turn, that the spirit of Cyrano was not reborn in him, and that he could not produce a sword from beneath the seat which didn't even have enough room for his knees, and drive the offender headlong from the stage...