Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this error has had its inevitable consequences, small Sabu is back on the throne where he belongs, and U. S. audiences, if they feel faintly cheated because there has not been any scalping, will at least have been rewarded by a full quota of parades, whiskey drinking, bagpipe music, sword dancing, gunplay in the palace courtyard and fine, old-fashioned British slang...
Passionate Corsican Campinchi feels just like every other Corsican about the little island's immortal son. Orator Campinchi declared last week that L'Empereur once said "In time, the sword will always be beaten." Taking this as his Napoleonic, yet democratic text, the navy minister cried: "These words are worthy to be recalled at a time when certain men profess disdain for liberty and a desire to outlaw traditional values which have always assured the nobility of man in our western civilization! Certainly a democratic regime may have weaknesses, but what are they compared with the dangers...
...nervousness and alarm -reactions noted and factually cabled by the leading correspondents in Germany, quite unhindered. It was pikestaff plain that Adolf Hitler wanted all Europe to hear about and be frightened by his mobilization. Der Führer, who thus far has had only to rattle the German sword to get what he wanted piecemeal, was rattling his loudest for the benefit of Lord Runciman in Prague...
...clothing enabling the wolf to slit the throats of the flock; it's a Nefarious Device to Destroy a Nation; it's the Nutty Dream of the alchemist, the Nebulous Desire of the marijuana victim; it's a pain in the neck and a sword in the heart...
...than any other of cinema's celluloid heroes. Of the same stout Cumberland strain that produced famous Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian, Errol is the son of Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, of Queen's University, Belfast. As a child in Ireland he played with Fletcher Christian's sword, knew his 18th-Century cousin's renown from yellowed family documents and a curly-wigged chromo that hung over the mantel. Veteran of three runaway attempts at 13, at 18 he was a member of the 1928 British Olympic boxing team, at 19, "hoofed out" of school in Sydney...