Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addresses, President Seymour, against the current of popular materialistic thought, asserted the moral basis of freedom. His words were wise rather than provocative or demagogic. Thus he never became a "headline character." But among Elis he was both admired and loved. In campus gatherings he liked to sing The Sword of Bunker Hill, waving a blade in accompaniment. He still collected first editions of A. Conan Doyle and E. Phillips Oppenheim, and liked to invite students around for beer and talk on a Sunday evening...
...this, his second major novel in two years, John Horne Burns wields an unbated sword of satire and sarcasm in a one-sided duel. With extraordinary dexterity, Burns has severed the suspenders of a certain unnamed New England private school, exposing its tattered foundation of tradition, clique, and petty prejudice. The parallel with this certain school seems to be all too accurate...
...attendants; a Negro jester clad in scarlet tunic stood at his elbow. The Amir was a mass of glittering green. His head was ringed by a gold and platinum crown studded with $3,000,000 worth of emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each) at his feet...
...paper headlined the news: HER SUICIDE: HIS FORTUNE. The suicide was in oils, a painting of a fat and mostly naked Dido, stabbing herself with a sword.* The Oxfordshire lady who owned it figured it was not "a picture anyone would want about the house," sold it to an antique dealer for 50 shillings ($10). The dealer traded it to a salesman for a $56 typewriter, and it was the salesman, a bustling Briton named Henry Eric Wells, who made a small fortune last week from Dido's suicide. He showed the painting to an art expert, discovered...
...news was an injury to Ray Frankman and another to Chip Arp. Both were top men with foils. A heavy blow knocked Frankman's sword out of his hand last week, and pulled a finger tendon at the same time...