Word: swords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MacDonald's own party accuses the Prime Minister of being a Gladstonian Liberal instead of a Labor leader. They make much of his gold braid and his sword, and some of them charge him with liking better the amenities of the banquet table than the approval of a dingy hall full of workingmen." At York, he is reported as having said to his Labor audience : " 'They say I have fallen into bad habits. See that you don't. I should forget that I had a ceremonial suit, if I were not reminded of it by the press...
...that was recognizable was a finger, held by experts to belong to the Empress because it was that of a middle-aged woman and its nail had been carefully manicured. There was also-with calcined precious stones, the remains of burnt clothing, the buckle of the Tsarevitch's sword belt, military buttons, some portable icons, and other objects of piety- a shapeless little mass of human grease!" The Monarchists, headed by the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, however, declined to reveal the present resting place of the urns and all that could be obtained by diligent newsmen were multiplex corroborations...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC?Walter Hampden reveals superbly what can be done with the sword-swinging classics when they're not played to the gallery...
...wings of the Angel of Peace are white, it can be said that the words of Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists are gray. Thus they record progress since the days, 800 years ago, when Saint Thomas a Becket was continually calling upon Pope Alexander III to unsheathe the sword of St. Peter...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC?Walter Hampden in ringing tones brings back the brave old days when an insult was an insult, and treated to fine sword and word play...