Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treasure chests were sneaked out of Poland under the noses of the Nazis in 1939 and sent to Canada by the Government. The 34 cases were crammed with antiques: jeweled goblets, original Chopin manuscripts, Poland's storied coronation sword, Szczerbiec. Their intrinsic value was in the millions, their historic value above price. In Canada they were carefully stored: 24 cases with the Redemptorist Fathers at the Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré, eight with the sisters of the Precious Blood convent in Ottawa, two in the vaults of the Bank of Montreal in Ottawa...
...lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her month is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Proverbs...
...being in Cyrano as well as the ham. As the monstrous-nosed, self-sacrificing lover who eloquently poured out his feeling for the beautiful Roxane in another man's behalf, Actor ( Ferrer was often not romantic enough. But as the hot-blooded, proud-plumed Gascon who overworked his sword, he had the right brag and strut; he polished the wit and dug out the humor in this cleverest of swaggerers. Best of all, he suggested that self-dramatizing streak in Cyrano that gives a wry pleasure to his frustrations - and that gives the play its gill of psychology...
These descendants of the original (Gulliver's Travels) Lilliputians are the discovery of British Author T. H. White, author of three Arthurian-legend fantasies: The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made Knight. He has put them to good use in a book that is freakish fantasy from start to finish. Supposedly a children's book, it will entertain most adults (it is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for October...
...just as fearless in condemning Communist outrages. In 1945, the Archbishop wrote in a pastoral letter: "The enemies of the Catholic Church ... the followers of the materialistic communism . . . have in our Croatia exterminated with fire and sword priests and the more eminent of the faithful. . . . The number of dead priests is 243; 169 are in prison. We admit that some priests, blinded by national or party passion, sinned . . . in a way for which they must render account to lay courts. . . . We do not intend to defend the guilty...