Word: sword
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempting to build up impregnable walls of security since 1919 and refusing to compromise her position in the least degree, France has in the end succeeded only in brandishing the sword of nationalism. If she had been bold enough to take the initiative for reforming the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations' covenant, the present crisis might not have been precipitated so inevitably. A century ago France herself was in a similar position to that of Germany, but the yoke of guilt and indemnity was wisely taken from her shoulders three years after the Congress of Vienna and peace...
...Harvard life for the last thirty three years. At every commencement since 1899 he has donned his blue court coat with gold buttons, his white waistcoat, and top hat, and has marched in the annual June academic procession to open the ceremonies with a blow of his official sword on the rostrum and the traditional words, "The assembly will now come to order...
...Harvard University Employment Bureau has gathered together an extremely varied group of entertainers and lecturers, we find. One gentleman an authority on Russia, is "also prepared to deliver short illustrated talks to children on bee-keeping, sword fishing, and the life of the American sailor". Another of the lecturers is portentously entitled, "Astronomer"; he gives a talk which, oddly enough is set for the non-astronomical brethren...
...Elizabeth has spread about her kinswoman. The Lords then murder Darnley, shift the blame to Bothwell when he marries Mary. They defeat Mary and Bothwell in battle. Mary escapes from their jail into Elizabeth's jail and her tragedy waits only on the headsman's sword. Author Anderson entirely whitewashes Mary and Bothwell for the murder of Darnley...
...most brilliant trial lawyers in the U. S. As inquisitor in the judicial investigation of New York City's magistrates' courts in 1930 he had achieved nationwide fame. The very day Bank of United States was closing its doors, Manhattan newspapers were calling Isidor Kresel "the swift sword of public conscience." Few weeks later, indicted along with seven other Bank of United States officers and their relatives, Counsel Kresel was fingerprinted at police headquarters. The special prosecutor who secured the indictments was another Austrian-born Jew, slick little Max D. Steuer, whom Isidor Kresel had once tried...