Word: sworde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Secret, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. swaps his sword for a stethoscope and his cape for a trenchcoat, but the picture lacks none of the swashbuckling verve of his earlier efforts. Without benefit of a princess, a stolen treasure, or a single duel, the old master manages to find in the Twentieth Century all the components of absorbing high adventure...
...Sword. Worried about the future of the empire he had pieced together, Ibn Saud years ago called his sons together, made them agree to recognize the eldest, Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz al Faisal al Saud, as his heir, instead of settling the succession-as he had-"by the sword." Recently, half blind, racked by arthritis and heart disease, the old King handed over many of his duties to Crown Prince Saud and retreated into one of his fabulous palaces at Taif, near Mecca. There, last week, at 72, a fragile shadow of the giant who once rode at the head...
...long ago, when stripping an officer of his rank for reasons of cowardice or unbecoming behavior, the armed services would rip off his epaulets and break his sword. Today's Air Force is less symbolic but is also less strict in its requirements for being drummed...
Once upon a medieval time there was a juggler named Cantalbert. He was a good juggler. He could stand on one hand on a stool on a ball on a sword, while he twirled a hoop with his free arm and juggled ten balls with his feet. But people paid no attention. They would rather fight each other, or get drunk, or go to a witch-burning. If he were an ascetic, thought Cantalbert, perhaps Heaven would send him an audience. So he made himself a hair shirt and juggled in that, but, except for a few other ascetics, nobody...
...Sword and the Rose (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is an old-fashioned piece of historical romance done with stylized charm and sly wit. Based on Charles Major's popular 1898 novel, When Knighthood Was in Flower, it tells the love story of Princess Mary Tudor (1496-1533) and Captain of the Guard Charles Brandon. Before the two lovers were married in 1515, Mary had to overcome the objections of her brother, King Henry VIII, submit to a short-lived political marriage with aging, ailing King Louis XII of France, and, according to the movie, contend with the machinations...