Word: sword
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Youths, do you not feel the spirit of your fathers that aroused them to fight against that foreign doctrine?Christianity? Does not your heart burn to renew this struggle? Seize the weapon of your fathers and conquer with the sword the spirit of your future...
...instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have them all beheaded with a sword, which he sharpens before their eyes. After they have confessed their misdeeds, mild-mannered Ezekiel lets them go. He decides the cigaret girl will make a satisfactory wife and that he does not need to go back to China. Says he: "Why should the meadow lark carry food...
With his Pecora sword in hand For months the Wallstreet foe he sought, So rested he by the Tugwell tree And smiled a while in thought...
...bull to kill a man with a sword is news almost anywhere, but when it happened last week at Corufia, with the greatest living bullfighter in the ring, Spanish editors stopped the presses...
...Corufia last week the great Belmonte stood with sword poised, feet together, to administer the estocado to a brave bull. Over the wicked horns his curving blade went, to miss by a hair's breadth the two-inch spot between the great shoulder blades. The bull stormed off, the sword waving like a reed from the hump of his back. With a mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing...