Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received a pair of brogans at Christmas while the other children got fine shoes and then complained that they hurt him not in the feet but in the heart). He treated the Senate to a long legendary account of Roland of Roncesvalles who "guarded the gate with drawn sword against all impostors...
...April, 16, 1928). There in a monastery perched on a mountain crag he composed a tome of Buddhist poems, painting each character daintily with his artful brush. This scholarly job done and his Fatherland being still stricken by famine, pestilence and war, sedate Scholar Wu buckled on again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing telegram received at Shanghai from Manchuria's famed General Ma (TIME...
...Chinese hospital. The Japanese courtmartial, when these facts had been established, complimented Major Kuga and dismissed him with all honor-but his hero's brain throbbed with the madding, ignominious fact that he had been "captured." Major Kuga wished to commit harakiri-to disembowel himself with his sword-but his own sword had been broken in the battle, an aggravation of his shame. Brooding and white-lipped Major Kuga walked last week to the exact spot on Shanghai's battlefield where the hand grenade had knocked him unconscious. There, putting his service pistol to his head, he fired...
...help of his new-found wealth and the communist enemies of Philip Crow, gets himself elected mayor of the town. To advertise Glastonbury to the world at large, Mayor Geard stages a Passion Play, crossed with Arthurian Romance, for the town is near Stonehenge, and Arthur's sword and the Holy Grail make their appearances at times. What with mystic visions, and an unrivaled collection of sexual affairs, mostly clandestine or perverse, Novelist Powys allegorizes his conception of the "divine-diabolic soul of the First Cause." In the end Geard rescues Philip Crow from his fallen airplane, is drowned...
...delivered the annual oration of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Cambridge. "The American Scholar" was his theme. "The older faces grew grimmer with every word, while the younger lighted up with eager approval. This speaker had come to bring not peace but a sword, and the words he uttered today were to mark the birth of another generation." His somewhat startling fame soon attracted disciples, friends. Margaret Fuller came, then Thoreau; between them The Dial was published. For four years it printed their works, gave the U. S. its first taste of Oriental literature, the Chaldean Oracles. Confucius' Analects...