Word: swords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First came a police escort, then General Hines, Chief of Staff, riding alone, saluting with his sword as he passed. Soon after, he joined the President's party in the reviewing stand...
...there is another element more important than all, without which there cannot be the slightest hope of a permanent peace. . . . Parchment will fail, the sword will fail, it is only the spiritual nature of man that can be triumphant. . . . We have made great contributions to the settlement of contentious differences in both Europe and Asia. But". . . we can only help those who help themselves...
King Gustav of Sweden, through his Ambassador at Washington, asked the State Department whether Congress could be induced to pass a bill authorizing one of the U. S. world fliers to accept from him the Order of the Sword. The flier chosen for this honor is Lieut. Eric Nelson...
...long unknown fact became public last week. The coat of arms of West Point Military Academy, borne for many a year, was discovered to have been adopted with a number of wretched errors in heraldry. It consists of a helmet, pierced by a sword pointing diagonally downward, imposed upon a vertically striped shield. The whole is surmounted by an eagle. The direction of the sword was from upper right to lower left, the same as the "bar" or, more correctly, the "bend-sinister" (denoting illegitimacy). The eagle faced to the right so that, when carried on a banner, it faced...
...hundred years the portals of West Point and the uniforms of officers and students have been emblazoned with the eagle of cowardice and the "bar sinister" of illegitimacy! True, the eagle need only turn his head, from right to left to signify valor, the sword of Mars had only to be changed to a "dexter" diagonal to gain Kipling's benefit of clergy, but the fact remains that nobody knew it until two years ago when a war department official realized the mistake. Nobody knew it, that is, who was in a position to have it changed or to mention...