Word: sword
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor that he is personally frail-looking, mild-mannered, small, ascetic, "a mystic." Araki himself reconciles these contradictions in his character with his favorite maxim, "Be greedy only in mind." To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister. When he was ill, Japanese teachers collected sen from their schoolchildren to buy Araki medicine. Last week he was fit again, beating his dummy. The Diet was about to convene again, and it was time to make...
...spinsters, however, crawled into.the junk's hold where they crouched under canvas. Remembering the fate of Missionaries Mr. & Mrs. John C. Stam whom Communists beheaded with a broad sword last month (TIME, Dec. 24), the ladies knew that discovery meant death. A word from the Chinese boatman would do it. The Misses Granner and Renninger crouched below decks for six days, listening, dozing, stretching, thinking about the unclassifiable noises that came from the sacking of the nearby town of Taoyuan. Twice hooves and boots clattered over-head in numbers, for the army had commandeered the junk as part...
...Janney & Franklin Hauser; Russell Janney, producer) is the first musical romance to reach Broadway since last winter's Richard of Bordeaux (TIME, Feb. 26). A great many people liked Richard of Bordeaux for its color and pageantry. They should find The O'Flynn even more to their taste. A sword-&-cloaker of the first water, nimbly directed, eminently tuneful, scenically as magnificent as Hollywood's best, The O'Flynn tells a full-blooded tale about the battles between William of Orange and James II in Ireland...
...plow has made the furrow (BANG!) but the sword defends it (BANG!). . . . To us Fascists fighting is more important than victory itself (BANG!), for when fighting is surcharged with mighty will-power then victory cannot fail (BANG...
...excited peasants from all of Italy's 93 provinces who surrounded him the Dictator finally exclaimed: "Now you understand what the cannon's voice has thundered in unison with mine! Both the plowshare and the sword are made of sharpened steel, similar to the faith that burns in our hearts...