Word: sword
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, eleven swords in highly polished scabbards lay neatly spaced upon a horseshoe table. Behind each sword sat a general officer of the Army in full-dress uniform. In front of the table, nervously eyeing the eleven swords, sat an undistinguished, heavy-set man named Joseph Silverman Jr. who had made his everlasting fortune buying & selling surplus Army equipment. Also in front of the table, eyeing the eleven swords even more nervously, sat Colonel Joseph I. McMullen, long time legal adviser to the Assistant Secretary of War. Opening was a general court-martial...
...program is almost entirely manly, outdoor stuff. Second on the bill is "Fish from Hell", the log of a fishing expedition off the west coast of Mexico, featuring such gory delights as the death struggle between a whale and a sword fish. A Silly Symphony and Fox Movie tone News fill in the gaps...
...most frankly in an essay. On My Friendly Critics, written soon after the War: "I do not mind being occasionally denounced for atheism, conceit, or detachment. One has to be oneself; and so long as the facts are not misrepresented . . . any judgment based upon them is a two-edged sword: people simply condemn what condemns them. . . . My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image. . . . My detachment from things and persons is also affectionate, and simply what the ancients called philosophy: I consent that a flowing...
Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor For 'alf o' Creation she owns! We 'ave bought 'er the same with the sword an' the flame And we've salted it down with our bones (Poor beggars!-It's blue with our bones...
That evening the finals in the foils will be followed by an exhibition in the sword and sabre by the Olympic coaches. A dance for all contestants caps the day's program...