Word: swords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drove from the Palace of Buckingham to that of St. James's and held his first levee of the season. To St. James's came many an ambassador, came also Premier Stanley Baldwin, laced into a gold-buttoned coat, abashed beneath a huge military hat, fiddling speculatively with a sword...
...many states it became a political bogey. The peak of its power, it appears, came in about 1923. Soon, however, it began to disintegrate; scandal and dissension seized upon it internally; rival organizations sprang up?the Independent Klan, the Knights of the Flaming Sword, etc.?and in some places community pressure attacked it from without...
...leadership of the Klan was lost when the Simmons and Clarke dynasty was overthrown by the Texan dynasty of Hiram Wesley Evans. The palace is deserted or nearly so, and the home it gave to Simmons was sold when he went forth to found the Knights of the Flaming Sword. Clarke has founded the anti-evolution society?the Supreme Kingdom (TIME, Feb. 1, EDUCATION). No more are great national meetings held in Atlanta. It still is powerful in small cities, and its political influence is considered worth while...
...crown." The Queen of course wore her imposing State Crown, topped by a blazing Maltese Cross of diamonds. A diamond stomacher twinkled on the jet black gown which she had donned in mourning for Queen Alexandra. Close beside the throne stood the Marquis of Salisbury, holding the great Sword of State. Since the Prince of Wales was unable to appear on account of his fractured collar bone (TIME, Feb. 8), his brother, the Duke of York, took up his station slightly to the left of the throne. The Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse, the Gentlemen Usher...
Conversion by the sword seems to apply alike to gods and galoshes. The derbied and the turbaned Turk are brothers below the scalp. Their desires repressed on the battle-fields of the Balkans and in the valleys of Armenia, find vent in less holy carnage on the Black Sea coast. But it must be tedious for the more peaceful Moslems to spend their mornings in detailed perusal of statute books, lost a life be at stake in the crease of a trouser leg or the tilt of a hat brim...