Word: sworde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After quickly passing over the distracting decadence displayed on the cover of the Registration Issue of the Advocate (a cover strewn with stems, a sword, knife, bottles, brushes, legs, a violin bow, its violin, all complementing a long, angular girl fiddling in a proper literary manner, while the world burns) one finds little of much interest inside the magazine. Other than the happy choice of including no new poems, the editors seem to have made little effort to make the magazine palatable...
Terrified villagers termed the Devil King's new order Dao Lui, the Religion of the Sword, because his men, whether earthbound, high-flying or invisible, are addicted to murdering their victims by plunging their pikes through the palm-leaf walls of village huts. Recently the late Ba Cut's mother reportedly joined the Devil King, bringing with her several hundred of Ba Cut's old followers. The Devil King ordered them to let their beards grow down to their navels, administered an oath during which the newcomers drank one another's blood mixed with rice wine...
...stipulates that firearms may be sold only to buyers who have 1) a "certificate of good character" from a judge, and 2) no prison record. Another antiquated law unearthed by John Davis provides a $100 minimum fine for anyone who carries a "pistol, dirk, dagger, slingshot, handchain, night stick, sword cane, spear or bowie knife...
Life Savings. In Lisbon, José Rodrigues Guerra, who toured for 30 years as coin and sword swallower, was reported doing well after surgeons operated to extract 26 coins-worth about...
Until a few years before the Bolshevik Revolution, it appears, herds of aurochs roamed the fictional forest of Kratovits, a great feudal estate in Baltic Kurland, founded as a fortress in the Middle Ages by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. The aurochs were the last of their kind surviving from prehistoric times. What the lords of Kratovits did not know was that they were soon to be as extinct as these primitive bison...