Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just last week, Captain Midnight was engaged in subduing a character called "the Sword," who was preparing to set fire to military installations with inflammable spray. It was evident that the Sword was in the pay of some agency hostile to the United States, but the script never get beyond mysterious references to "they," and a rendezvous in South America...
...This Sword, by the way, was a most unusual villain. He was obviously cultured, owned a vaguely-British accent, and frequently employed such radio invective as "you scoundrels" and "treacherous dogs." He also discussed his schemes with his mother, a creepy old sadist whose pulpy tones probably sent dozens of little tykes howling...
While the Sword was intelligent (in a treasonable way), Captain Midnight combines the spirit of a college quarterback with the sagacity of a Pinkerton operative. Perhaps it is unfair to suggest that a streak of anti-intellectualism runs through this program and its fellows, but the blackest villains are generally smarter than the heroes, and considerably more sophisticated...
...Cold. Ike donned horn-rimmed spectacles to read his 20-minute inaugural address, stopping once to snuffle into a handkerchief because of a bad cold. The new president's address was proper, unexciting, and meant to reassure everyone that he had laid down his sword & shield. Said Eisenhower: "If this were a land where the military profession is a weapon of tyranny or aggression-its members an elite caste dedicated to its own perpetuation-a lifelong soldier could hardly assume my present role. But in our nation the Army is the servant of the people ... Hence, among...
...Warrington going to vote Republican to get even? He didn't see how that would help at all. "This fellow we got now, he's got kind of radical and I hold that against him," he said. "In 1946 we had a strike and he stuck a sword in our back and there wasn't any need for it. But this other fellow is a kind of a radical too. I don't know as I'd go out of my way to vote...