Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been casting desperately about for some means of regaining their lost power. Recently the two great political parties Seiyukai and Minseito-normally as friendly as cats and dogs-made overtures to each other and were working feverishly last week to achieve union and strength against the men of the sword...
...work a real moral equivalent of war. The Author began his literary career by writing humorous sketches for Russian newspapers. Before that he had been a soldier. Tsarist against the Germans, a Red artilleryman against the Whites. Now in Moscow (he was born in Odessa) he has beaten his sword into one of Russia's most trenchantly successful pens. Sharp of nose, chin, ear and eye, with black hair dipping into an acute widow's peak, Kataev is 36, just about the right age for a New Russian. His earlier book (The Embezzlers ) was written with such humorous...
...while in process of prognosticating stop believe him kidnapped in connection with Lampoon-H.A.A. feud stop all predictions but Harvard-Army encounter found on desk of Reverend Sire stop In Casey returns shall wire you stop all I can say now is that Army will gird on its sword and Buckler stop it should be a Burlingame stop following are scores left by honored father: Brown 13 Syracuse 0 Princeton 13 Dartmouth 6 Yale 7 Georgia 6 Columbia 13 Navy 7 Fordham 7 N.Y.U. 7 Michigan State 23 Carnegie Tech 12 Oregon 7 Oregon State 6 Illinois 13 Northwestern...
...fine, shiny sword, made at the celebrated Klingenthal works at the order of French Veterans of the Revolution, was to have been given to George Washington but the first President died before presentation could be made. Last week the old sword lay on President Roosevelt's desk, a gift from Premier Daladier of France to the 32nd U. S. President. When newshawks tiled into President Roosevelt's office to pop their questions one morning, one chirped, "What about the monetary policy?'' The President's face assumed a heavily humorous scowl. He turned to an aide...
...Hercules" furled sail at Samos. The emissaries who were to have met Lord Byron were gone, one fled, the other captive. Ibrahim Pasha swept over Greece with fire and sword and torture, sleek with the returns which captives brought in the Egyptian slave-market. The English Lord fretted in stagnation...