Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Replete with catacombs, moving fire-places, escapes through sewers, and flowing cloaks, the U.T.'s latest offering leaves you with the definite impression that you have seen it all before. Louis Hayward is a very poor imitation of Errol Flynn, indulging in sword fights, balconies, and women ad infinitum...
Navymen blinked when Admiral Land retired from the Navy (after 35 years' service) when he was only 58. For this was the same Jerry Land who won the athletic sword at Annapolis in 1900 (for football, baseball, crew, track, minor sports) while he was finishing sixth in his class. It was the same Jerry Land who was head of the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair, who could fly his own airplane, who was a field official at two or three big-league football games each season (as he still is), the little man with the quarterdeck...
...proved to be a brief (104-page) enshrinement of a single sensational idea. Since Germans are the perennial disturbers of the world's peace, says the book, they must be dealt with like any homicidal criminals. But it is unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. It is more humane to sterilize them. "The army groups, as organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. Taking 20,000 surgeons as an arbitrary number and on the assumption that each will perform a minimum of 25 operations daily, it would take no more than...
...small, black bull backed away just as the sword point reached the spot between its shoulders. The sword flew out and landed in the sand. Lorenzo Garza picked it up. He profiled and lunged again. Again the bull backed away...
...Lorenzo Garza picked up his sword and for the tenth time prepared to try to kill this bull, there were so many bottles and cushions falling that he could not go on. The next thing Lorenzo Garza knew, he was standing by the barrera and the steers were trying to take the bull away. When the bull would not go with the steers, they brought in a cowboy, but the cowboy with his lasso was no better than Lorenzo Garza had been with the estoque and they brought in the steers again. After what seemed a long while to Lorenzo...