Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the truce was far from stopping gunfire in China. No sooner did the terms leak out than Chinese war lords were snapping at each other like angry clogs. At Hsuanhuafu, on the Peiping-Kalgan Railway, General Feng Chan-hai (of the "Big Sword" volunteers), leading his Japan-battered troops down to Peiping, met General Fang Chen-wu and his private army going up to Kalgan. The two forces clashed. General Fang hoping to seize control of North China. Meantime the able Cantonese 19th Route Army was still making its way slowly north with the rumors gaining daily strength that...
...Capt. Goring was about to set out for Italy to join Col. von Papen, whose job there was twofold: 1) to prepare the way for a later visit to Italy from Handsome Adolf himself; 2) as a good Catholic and Cameriere Segreto di Spada e Cappa (Private Chamberlain, Cape & Sword) to the Papal Court, to persuade the Vatican that Hitlerism promised no harm to Christianity or to the Catholic Church. What was happening behind him was no help. Having "coordinated" almost everything in sight, the enthusiastic Nazis turned next to the Evangelical Church...
Saluting smartly, Lieut. Baillie-Stewart stepped to the witness stand. By King's Regulations an officer under arrest may wear neither sword nor spurs. As a Highlander Baillie-Stewart had been deprived of his Sam Browne belt. Just as the trial commenced a clergyman sprang up from the back benches waving a Bible and shouting...
...Forts Munoz and Nanawa, 60 mi. apart in the sopping Gran Chaco jungle between Paraguay and Bolivia. Last December the Paraguayans, South America's fiercest fighters, had pushed big Bolivia's lackadaisical army back to the outlying "forts" (huts on mounds) around Munoz. Last week the cloak-&-sword Bolivians, wearing second-hand U. S. uniforms, wielding jungle machetes, took "Fort" Jordan, backed the Paraguayans against Nanawa. their Verdun, a small French-built fort that was the last defense before the Paraguay River and Paraguay's second biggest city, Concepcion...
...from Mr. Mackay. At the same time the Museum acquired from him an Adoration of the Shepherds by Mantegna; three historic suits of armor; two belonging to Queen Elizabeth's friends, the Earls of Pembroke and Cumberland, the third to Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France; the finest sword the Museum has ever owned, that of Ambrosio di Spinola, the General of Velazquez's famed Surrender of Breda (The Lances); and the only known 14th Century tapestry depicting King Arthur...