Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of the late Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, the "banzais" of sword-shaking Japanese drowned out their more intelligent countrymen. The world of the '305 and the '405 had no chance to learn that modern Japan has also produced a fair quota of writers, thinkers and even humorists. Last month the work of one of them, a 2O-year-old novelette called Kappa, was first published in English translation. To American readers, Ryunosuke Akutagawa's satire seemed almost too good to have been written by a Japanese...
Guest of honor was spry, 69-year-old, Mrs. Flora MacLeod, 28th chieftain of the MacLeod clan, who had come all the way from Scotland's Isle of Skye for the doings. Dressed in tribal tartan, the MacLeod of MacLeods watched the clansmen in sword dances, Highland flings. With another kilted chieftain, Premier Angus L. Macdonald, she listened to speeches in Gaelic and stamped time to shrill renditions (including Mrs. MacLeod's March, written especially for the occasion) by the Cape Breton Highlander's Pipe Band. Said she: "It is wonderful to be in a place...
Something He Ate. In Detroit, Sword Swallower Tony Marnio gulped a two-foot length of lighted neon tube, glowed at his appreciative audience, bowed, thereupon went out like a light, was hustled to a hospital for removal of the shattered tube...
Scott had come to the little crossroads farming town, a year ago as a lay preacher for the new Methodist Church. He had a nose for sin. His eyes gleamed behind his rimless glasses, and his tongue was like a two-edged sword. He cried aloud for the citizens of Rose City to repent. They went to movies and dances, he stormed. While the kids played baseball on Sunday, he prayed in church for rain to stop them...
...last March in Las Vegas and then married him again in Hollywood, said she would now divorce him. Alan Stephan, "Mr. America of 1946," married Grace Pomazal, "Miss Quick Freeze." Hedy Lamarr's estranged husband, Actor John Loder, who had been pricked in a dueling scene, had a sword-tip cut from his thigh. And Actor Chester Morris broke his leg in two places dancing at a children's party...