Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...station, a director of other corporations. A devout Roman Catholic (he had a chapel built in his home so that priests could say Mass there), he was once supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. In 1944 Pope Pius XII made him a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword, a post entitling him to serve a turn of duty on the Vatican staff if he ever wants...
...Laurel and Hardy have been successful at the same type of comedy for years, a slapstick variety with humor arising from situation and double-meanings rather than from plot intricacies. That is the type of humor in "The Braggart Warrior." Briefly, a soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another. He keeps the first against her will, while her real lover waits next door. He is tricked into releasing her, and receives a beating and almost a fate worse than death--from his standpoint--for his pains in chasing the second woman...
Albert Borowitz, as Pygropolynices, the soldier whose amorous conquests pale before his last defeat, plays his role with a flair that is truly laugh-provoking. Swishing his sword about, gazing at himself in his mirror--which he continually carries about with him--he plays the title role with great gusto. He enjoys it himself, and certainly last night's audience did. John Rexine plays the old gentleman of Ephesus, Periplectomenus, naturally and well and George Mulhern gives a fine performance as a slave through whose agency the true lovers are reunited and the warrior disgraced. The real show-stopper...
...Paris. In a clearing in the Forest of Senart, Fèvre and Merindol got out and took their positions. Merindol had frantically practiced saber fighting for four days, but he was no match for Fèvre's skill. After a few parries the heavy cavalry sword dropped from his bleeding hand. The umpire pronounced him fit to fight on, but had to stop the duel a few seconds later. Fèvre was striking out so furiously (see cut") that he feared Merindol might get seriously hurt...
...wristwatch. As he took them, tears rolled down the grizzled cheeks of hard-boiled Jack Campbell. Before long, more than tears was flowing: friends had sent over a supply of liquor. By the time the gang got through a fancy buffet lunch (courtesy of the Southern Pacific), a woman sword swallower had dropped in from a circus to swallow three swords, and Mayor Fletcher Bowron had read a proclamation making Campbell "mayor of the day." The Chamber of Commerce sent a chamber pot as a good-natured gag, and W. R. Hearst wired his congratulations...