Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a dunghill and buries it. In the last act Orestes returns from exile to slake Electra's brooding hatred by killing his mother, a pasty-faced harridan with a red wig over her grey hair. When the play ends the Furies are already making Orestes swish his sword at phantoms...
Getting into an airplane, the Generalissimo then flew over Madrid and on to Burgos, the North headquarters of the Whites. With the Capital almost encircled, it was time for White "Provisional President" General Miguel Cabanellas to hand over his trappings of authority to the prospective White Dictator. Drawing a sword and flourishing it over Generalissimo Franco as though knighting him, the snowy-bearded "Provisional President" exclaimed: "General Franco, in the name of the Lord, and by the will of the Spanish People, I hand over to you full power over The Spanish State...
...Hoare has become First Lord to make the British Admiralty so strong that London will no longer have to soft-soap Berlin. Last week the distinctly pro soft-soap Times of London almost lost patience on reading the Nürnberg Proclamation, grumbled: "Germany, after all, appealed to the sword in 1914, and as a consequence lost her colonies...
Neither Purse Nor Sword or the Menace to the Union (Macmillan, $2) was nearly finished when Pennsylvania's onetime Representative James Montgomery ("The Constitution") Beck died. Upon his death it was finished by Merle Thorpe, editor of The Nation's Bttsiness. Its opening sentence: "It is an interesting coincidence that at the very time when Edward Gibbon was approaching the completion of his monumental work-the 'mighty epitaph' of the greatest republic of ancient times-a small group of men assembled in Philadelphia were creating a new republic in the western world which, in point...
...starts with Henry VIII (Frank Cellier) on his deathbed, cursing his courtiers and appointing his successor. Most formidable source of royal acrimony is Warwick (Cedric Hardwicke), "a man without conscience and without fear," who becomes the power behind the new throne. He does this by setting his rivals at sword's point until they have obliged him by eliminating each other. Thereupon he marries Lady Jane Grey (Nova Pilbeam) to his son and has her crowned. Nine days later Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's daughter, storms into London with the northern counties at her back and ends upon...