Word: swords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subsequent mailed and smuggled despatches did not fully clear up a mystery which Soviet censors would not permit to be mentioned in cables. Seemingly Dictator Stalin was holding the sword of banishment in suspension over opposition necks, waiting to see if opposition heads would kowtow...
When copies of Soviet Government newspapers were received, they bristled with propaganda tending to prepare the public for the descent of the sword upon Trotsky and his followers who were described as "political cockroaches" . . . must . . . be sent away out of the proletarian family...
...proud young Amir of Afghanistan is the despot of a mountain realm rising like a sword between British India and Asiatic Russia. He divides one from the other, defies both. Last week the Amir Amanullah (literally "The Sovereign Lord 'Peace of God' ") set foot upon European soil at Naples, sped by specal train to Rome, began an extensive tour of the Occident...
...blue uniform, twinkling with medals, cased the little, compact royal body. The oval, shapely head bore proudly a black shako topped with aigrette plumes. The left hand rested, militantly graceful, on the jeweled hilt of a sword. The right arm snapped to a correct salute as Amir Amanullah beheld upon the platform small, slim King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, and burly but suave Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
...another letter the English writer expresses his gratitude to Miss Lowell for a copy of another one of her books; "I fear I am late in thanking you for your kind gift of 'Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds'." The only known manuscript copy of this volume is in the possession of Widener Library...