Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Washington Bicentennial Ball at the Mayflower last fortnight, Mrs. Gann as No. 1 guest (the Hoovers did not attend) appeared in a Colonial gown of green taffeta with petticoat of white satin and lace. All her efforts to get Vice President Curtis into costume with a wig and sword were unavailing. Because of the dignity of his office, he insisted on wearing his ordinary evening clothes, watching the spectacle from his box. Chief Justice Hughes, who also attended, felt the same, would not dress...
Died. Adelaide Scarcez Hermann, 79, "Queen of Magic," relict of Alexandre Hermann "The Great," famed conjurer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. As his assistant she frequently evaporated into space, received many a sword thrust, knew how he caught the marked bullets when ten U. S. troopers shot at him. Jesse Lasky got his theatrical start as their manager. After Hermann died on board their silver bath-tubbed private car, purchased from Lily Langtry, she formed her own show, in which once worked Buster Keaton...
Benito Mussolini put on his gold embroidered frock coat, sword, trousers with gold stripes, decorations, hat like an admiral's only much gayer. It was an Italian holiday, newly named Lateran Treaty Day. Crowds thronged the Tiber's banks. Honored _ guests at the Vatican included Camilla Ratti, sister and nearest relative to the Pope, and Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti-Ugolini, the Pope's favorite niece, who named her daughter Maria Rio Pia in her uncle's honor. Bustling about was Monsignor Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Master of the Papal Household, favorite secretary of Pius XI. Plump, jolly, much-loved...
...except the Sword, unsheathed and uncontrolled...
...became the world's first great democrat. But democracy rang less magnificently in the ears of the people than it does today. Tiberius was scoffed at and rebuked until at last he tried in desperation to hold out the precepts of democracy upon the point of his sword. And the wrath of the city arose and smote him for his impudence and his body was thrown by night into father Tiber. Far away at Numantia his brother in law, whom the Romans called Africans, heard the news and recalled a line of Homer "So perish all who do the like...