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Word: swords (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mourning procession paced the battle charger of Marshal Fayolle, with bridle down and empty boots reversed in stirrups. Ten officers followed, bearing on velvet cushions the Marshal's baton, sword and blazing decorations seemingly numberless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mighty Dead | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Princess Ida, 51, legless, one-handed Coney Island freak; to Thomas Kelly, 51, owner of the Coney Island scooter ride. Plans for the wedding celebration included an exhibition of the varsity drag by the fat girl and the skinny man, and a fencing match between the sword swallower and the tattooed lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Then, with the budget about to be voted down, came, as in Polish fairy tales, the surprise. A door behind the Tribune of the Sejm flew open. Once more the frayed field uniform, the old sword, the drooping ferocious mustachios: PILSUDSKI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Sick Lion | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...HAWK-Robert W. Chambers-Appleton ($2.00). For years Author Chambers has dominated the realm of high romance. His present flyleaf lists two columns of unaccountably sound-sellers, many of which have dealt with cloak and sword, picturesque oaths and spirited ladies. Louis XIV being his favorite monarch, he now weaves around this "Sun King's" favorite hunting companion a somewhat laborious tale of French colonization in Quebec, complete with bloody Indian skirmishes and pious persecution of heretics. As for love interest, 8-year-old Countess Palladine, the sole survivor of a lurid Turkish massacre, is rescued thrillingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Picturesque | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...jaunty but therapeutically casual days of the 17th century two men often sat late over their wine cups. The one was dressed in silks and at his side a slim sword swung. The other's garb was black, but his eyes gleamed in candlelight. Sword-swinger was England's Charles I; the eyes gleamed in the head of Dr. William Harvey, no ordinary leech. Last week 100 chosen doctors from the world over gathered in London to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the royal leech's book* which first told the world that blood completes a circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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