Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salesmen Nicholson & Hill resolved to organize a Christian society of drummers. Unable to agree upon a name, they prayed together until Insurance Man Knights arose, exclaimed: ''The Christian Commercial Travelers' Association! The Gideons!" Opening his Bible he read from Judges how the Lord had placed a sword in the hand of Gideon, "a man who was willing to do exactly as God wanted...
...betrayed the general hostility to Olympias and Epirus by saying "he hoped there would be a child by the marriage to give them a truly Macedonian heir." Whereupon young Alexander rose and threw his cup of wine at Attalus . . . "What then am I?" Philip stood up and drew his sword, but stumbled and fell. And fiery Alexander...
...Government has ever permitted itself the luxury of enjoying. If war could be declared by poster, China declared it last week with gaudy and gigantic stickers pasted up all over Nanking showing Generalissimo Chiang leaping to the top of China's Great Wall and beckoning with drawn sword for a Chinese army to follow him over the wall and into Japan's Manchukuo. The Christian birthday cake of the Dictator carried not 50 candles but replicas of 50 foreign-built bombing planes of the latest type which are the Chinese people's birthday present to Chiang Kaishek...
...from sea-green water, while maidens resist his efforts. The graphic imagination of a member of the press quickly recognized this easy symbol as some one drowning at the sinking of the "Lusitania". At the right of the door an armored fist thrust through the Ring and holding a sword shows the threat of destruction by those who control the power of the Ring. No one has so far come forward with the Nazi parallel for this symbol...
...comprises two buildings close by the Institution. Here many of Roosevelt I's African hunting trophies are realistically mounted. The Smithsonian building itself is the nation's inexhaustibly interesting attic, whose cherished and heterogeneous knick-knacks include Lindbergh's transatlantic plane and General Custer's sword and scabbard...