Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time," said General Sadao Araki last December before he retired as Japan's sword-rattling War Minister, "with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country...
...Next he worked on Go Daigo's army with bribes. Finally in 1335 he set himself up as Shogun at Kamakura. Go Daigo, refusing to recognize him, fled south to Yoshino but remembered to take the sacred mirror of the Sun Goddess, the sacred jewel and the sacred sword-symbols of his right to reign. Takauji. well aware that his title of Shogun was empty as long as it lacked the sanction of a reigning descendant of the Sun Goddess, looked for a Puppet Emperor. By 1336 Japan presented the strange picture of an Empire straddling two Emperors...
...Notes on a Cellar Book," Saintsbury's magic sword, was all dressed up in red and white and black and gold and a preface by Owen Wister, and brought out in a new American edition, for a generation that has never known good wines or liquors, never known that alcoholic drinks should be smelled, tasted, sipped, reflected upon, instead of being gulped with a prayer, never known when sherry, when burgundy, when port, when madeira should be served; a generation that has, in "drinking for drunkee," lost sight of the milder and nobler uses of alcohol...
...usually sings Siegmund. And he sang the taxing music every bit as well. Twelve years ago critics used to find fault with Althouse's bleating but now, at 44, his voice is perfectly controlled, rich with color. Thoroughly exciting was the scene where he pulls Wotan's sword out of the ash tree. He jumped up on the table, grasped the hilt firmly, steadied himself and gave a mighty jerk that was felt throughout the audience...
...first great triumph of the coloured world," he holds out a small hope, no bigger than Hitler's hand, for the salvation of Western civilization. "There remains as a formative power only the warlike, 'Prussian' spirit-everywhere and not in Germany alone. . . . He whose sword compels victory here will be lord of the world. The dice are there ready for this stupendous game. Who dares to throw them...