Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myth that says Capital is an angel with a flaming sword who keeps Labor out of Eden really means that capitalists are a sharp and greedy lot who fool the laborers...
...first time the Lord Mayor of London flew somewhere last week, flew not only with his civic sword and his civic mace but medievally bedight in swishing robes, clanking gold chains of office and great plumed...
Necessarily the flight was made in a closed Imperial Airways liner of largest type. From London it whisked Lord Mayor Sir Maurice Jenks 200 miles north to Morecambe, Lancashire. Out climbed the Sword Bearer, the Mace Bearer, the City Marshal, the Common Cryer and a whole archaic retinue, so that Sir Maurice Jenks could inaugurate with proper pomp Morecambe's new Town Hall...
Hirohito was not crowned. Instead, upon his father's death in 1926 he assumed protection of Japan's three Sacred Treasures: The Sword which commands "Be Brave!" The Jewel which says "Enlighten thyself!" and the Most Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Omikami which enjoins "Know thyself...
...Control of Japan by men of politics instead of men of the sword is a new-fangled arrangement, dating de jure from the reign of Emperor Meiji who introduced an Occidental (Prussian) style of Constitution in 1889 and de facto from the founding of Japan's oldest political party (Seiyukai) in 1900. Naturally the Army & Navy with their ancient traditions scorn Japanese Constitutionalism which is only in its swaddling clothes. The lower classes (both proletarians arid peasants) tend to approve each fresh assassination of a politician or financier by a civilian or a member of the fighting services...