Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This problem has long been a Gordian knot for which the dull wits of the responsible officials have been no cleaving sword. But a simple man and true, an honest yardcop, the flower of Colonel Apted's force, could shear the tangled threads. He would divert traffic from Widener's airy porch, the prime lurking lair of homicidal chauffeurs. To do this he would open the at present unused gate by Harvard Hall, where trucks bearing heavy burdens would be admitted, and at which the carriers of light parcels, laundrymen and such, would be denied the luxury of motor transportation...
...Count Uchida was weary, one of the things that tired him was the incessant, reiterated sabre-rattling of War Minister Sadao Araki. Last fortnight Araki proclaimed, "The men of the sword are the wholesome elements in the nation, while the business men are experienced warriors in the sphere of economics. This is no time for indulging in partisan politics. . . . Big changes are in store for the nation within the next three months." And last week Araki sounded off again. He demanded a 1,000,000,000 yen ($267,000,000 at current exchange) domestic loan to squeeze a still bigger...
...grey-shirted heimwehr. He did not add that twelve private airplanes contributed chiefly by members of Austria's Fascist Heimwehr organization were patroling the border to shoo back Nazi planes coming over with propaganda pamphlets. He did not add that every Chancellery but one in Europe knew what sword-handy Henry Bérenger, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French Senate, wrote last week in the Agence Economique et Financière: "It is useless to temporize or quibble; Austria must remain outside Germany or there will be a European conflict-and what a conflict!-within...
...cold before some of the more excitable members of his staff demanded an autopsy to determine whether or not their sovereign's sudden death was due to foul play. Promptly surgeons at the University of Berne set their minds at rest. They found that King Feisal, "The Sword Flashing Down at the Stroke," had succumbed to an advanced stage of arteriosclerosis of the aorta and coronary arteries. The King's cardiac condition had not been improved by his insistence on smoking 100 cigarets...
...could lay hands on, despite the fact that wolf-raiding Rebel Yaku headed a band of not more than 1,000 Assyrians, whereas the Assyrian minority in Irak numbers 40,000, mostly peaceful. In a few days of fanatical Mohammedan slaughter 600 Assyrian villagers were put to the sword, according to British investigators. In Bagdad suave Irak Premier Rashid Ali Beg called the British reports "exaggerated," partially confirmed them when he insisted, "No Assyrian old men or children have been killed. No Assyrian women have been attacked...