Word: swords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Past Tample, thank Pharaoh Hiachepsat for having drawn me out of the Nile and helped me to attain high dignities." This is the grand message, the revelation of the Hebrew lawgiver, Moses, according to one scholarly gentleman. According to another it is bunk drivel. The question, therefore, like the sword of Damocles, remains suspended...
...depression. ''The waters are falling and our spirits are rising . . . [but] I should have thought that those . . . whose one unfailing remedy is the strike or lockout . . . would have learned more from the Great War. . . . In home affairs the speeches of too many leaders smack of the sword and battle axe. . . . Differences there must be . . . but I have yet to be convinced that they are not capable of resolution by reason and without resort to force...
...early life of Helen of Troy may not have been private-or at any rate Professor Erskine chooses to summarize it in two sentences: "So they all intended well. But Paris saw Helen face to face." The story begins when the topless towers of Ilium were falling: Menelaus sword in hand storms into Helen's room to kill her, looks and exclaims: "Helen, it's time we went home...
...Fascism has now broken down all dikes and overcome all obstacles . . . crushed its internal enemies. [Of] the currents abroad which are not resigned to our frontiers ... I must say that if tomorrow these frontiers are in any way placed at stake, I would ask the King to draw his sword...
...League in silencing the war threats and rifles of the Greeks and Bulgars. In the days before the League was thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every few months a new trouble would arise. And the great states would grin and use these tiny strifes for their own advantage. Now the League does the grinning, but the smile is on the other side of its mouth. Instead of using Balkan...