Word: swords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey, the ancient ceremony of "redeeming the sword" was held by the Knights of the Grand Cross of The Most Honorable Order of The Bath, created in 1399 by Henry IV. The ceremony takes place on the installation of new Knights. Ten Knights (Earl Beatty, Earl Haig, Earl of Ypres, Lord Southborough, Lord Chalmers, General Sir William Mackinnon, Sir George Buchanan, Viscount Esher, Sir Joseph Ridgeway, Lord Stamfordham) in plumed caps, wondrously colored robes, wearing massive gold chains and bejeweled stars, offered their swords to the Dean of West minster, and made...
...McAdoo is not to be nominated, the change would make it less easy for him to prevent the nomination of an opposing candidate, such as Mr. Brennan may favor. If either side secures a change to a majority rule, it will prove to be a two-edged sword that must be handled with care. So when Mr. Brennan challenged the McAdoo men to come out for a majority-vote rule, they countered by declaring they would make no opposition if Mr. Brennan proposed...
BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT?Rafael Sabatini ? Houghton ($2.00). More sword-clashings by "the modern Dumas," who here tosses off another breathless tale of hapless heroine rescued by peerless knight amid rebellion, intrigue, mad dashings hither and yon, and all else calculated to lift one bodily out of one's chair...
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK-Superbly fantastic proof that the paper-cutter is mightier than the sword, when it comes to disposing of the tiresome business...
While admittedly a relic from a more spirited age much can be said for a custom of duelling among the litterati. The pen is perhaps mightier than the sword, but putting an opponent to his literary death in monthly instalments contrasts unfavorably with the joy of making one quick lunge which will silence him forever. And the latter is by far the more humane method, since it preserves the blasted litterateurs from a lingering death by starvation or an equally unfortunate turn to the plebian occupation of automobile salesman...