Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Make ready your horse and your sword...
...blood among some Barnum & Bailey sideshow performers produced a dressing-tent brawl in Kansas City involving the fat lady, Baby Betty, Sword-Swallower Patricia Smith, The Great Shackles, and a hula dancer. (The midgets ran out.) For hitting Baby over the head with a pop bottle, Swallower Patricia was fined $20 by a city judge. She said it was worth it. Shortly 500-odd-pound Baby sued the swallower for $3,000. The bottle had hit her so hard, she claimed, that "all bones, muscles, tissues, nerves and my entire body were bruised, contused, lacerated and sprained." Old Fashioned...
...being drained off to Washington. In the humanities, the earnest searcher after truth finds himself handicapped not only by a diminished Faculty, but by a troublesome conscience. He, like his fellows, feels that war is taking the meaning from his studies and that he might do better with a sword than...
...other two. Colonel Carlson figured that he and his men had killed 198 of the 200 Jap marines on the island (plus 150 more who went down on two Japanese ships which U.S. warships sank in the harbor). Colonel Carlson found the body of the Japanese commander, took his sword (which was later presented to Admiral Nimitz in Honolulu). The Marines lost fewer than 20 dead. Said Colonel Carlson: "We wanted to take prisoners, but we couldn't find...
...last vintage, Rundstedt is among the best. He was born, as one should be, in Prussia, to a family which for generations had glorified the sword and service to the Fatherland, and nothing else. His father was an aristocrat and a general. So would...