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Word: swords (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authentic picture of General Yague. What the Reverend Thomas Higgins mistakes for Communism's hammer & sickle is the insignia worn for at least 30 years by Spanish infantry generals and continued as the insignia of Rebel generals. It is a four-pointed star with baton and sword crossed behind it. TIME is amazed at Father Higgins' opinion of journalistic ethics. TIME never knowingly publishes an unauthentic photograph, never has, never will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Blasts sword-Rattling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRO-WAR MEMORIAL REMOVAL IS SOUGHT | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

...This is no longer the age of Liberty Bond posters," Peel added. "Harvard is the last place where sword-rattling should be actively sponsored." The murals were criticized on the grounds that they do not truly reflect the sentiment of the undergraduate body as a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRO-WAR MEMORIAL REMOVAL IS SOUGHT | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

Elsewhere in the same opera, when one of the female characters faints at the sight of her sword-spitted father, a much-used English translation staggers out with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Operas in English | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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