Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor Hirohito with the traditional weapons. Always before he had had to give the newborn a dagger, the birthright of every Japanese girl to protect her purity. Four daggers had he thus given to four daughters. This time would His Majesty at last be able to give a sword? At exactly 6:39 a. m. came the first mewing cry. Tokyo trembled as the Imperial siren shrieked once (feminine), then went wild as a second shriek proclaimed a boy. Strangers solemnly congratulated each other in the streets, on tramcars, in trains, on ferry boats. Husbands and wives flung themselves into...
...Wiser than Nicholas II, Stalin I plunged Russia last week into the most farsighted and stupendous effort of military-economic preparation for defense in history. To help put the Dictator's program across, newsorgans throughout all the Russias printed scare stories to the effect that Japan's sword-handy War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki is about to stage a Fascist coup in Tokyo, will emerge as Premier and launch an immediate war on Russia...
...from the Post, on the top of the Denver County Court House, has stood for the last 50 years a gilded iron statue of Justice, with traditional sword and scales. Last fortnight, when workmen started to raze the Courthouse to make room for a park, the Denver Post ran a picture of the statue being lowered to the ground, captioned "Justice expelled from her habitation of half a century...
...strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys on the Baltic ice, wolves, and various other escapes from famine, sword and fire...
Theirs was far from the last execution. In Breslau another top-hatted headsman swung his sword on another Communist neck. Ten more Reds were sentenced to death in Dessau while 19 others were waiting in German jails for headsmen to get their second wind...