Word: swords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high-astounding terms, And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword. -MARLOWE...
...streets. They never meet indoors. Misbehavior is entirely traceable to the youths' environment-lack of play facilities. They have no equipment or room for sports and games. A ten-cent rubber ball is used for a football with the lamp posts for goal lines. A stick becomes a sword to be jabbed into someone. Grimy little fists poke into forbidden places and come out with articles of value. That is their...
...light of her position as the leading Slav power in Europe, and as the champion of the small Balkan States. She had fought for them in 1876 and there was a close feeling of solidarity between the members of the orthodox church. But her decision to draw the sword in 1914 was due less to her sympathy for Serbia than to a desire to restore her prestige; and it was precisely because she had yielded to the pressure of Austria and Germany at the time of the Bosnian crisis that it was considered impossible to yield to their pressure again...
...spirit, decided Miss Millay, is the old Saxon legend. The Saxon is nearer than the redman; the turbulent warrior dearer than the Puritan, to our age. Theirs was a forthright, swaggering, romantic spirit. Mr. Taylor would write his music true to the hunt, the forest, the clash of sword, the misty superstitions, the feudal ideals of loyalty...
...were capped by wigs as large as beehives. Peeresses, for the first time, generally wore flexible diamond-studded bandeaux, instead of the old fashioned tiaras. Even Edward of Wales stood decorous in his place at the right of the throne. A moment earlier he had tripped over his own sword and almost sprawled. The picture seemed sufficiently magnificent, yet His Majesty sat waiting. The delay lengthened, grew in a few seconds to seem interminable. . . . Black Rod. That which delayed George V in opening Parliament was the absence of the plebeian members of the House of Commons. In another part...