Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dartmouth experiment succeeds, it will be like adding a year to a man's life. But it must be remembered that the success of twenty dean-picked men is no proof that schoolboys at large are not better off with the sobering sword of the board examinations hanging above their heads...
...knew thee of old Oh divinely restored By the light oj thine eyes And the light of thy sword...
...nation which sees eye-to-eye with the President in the matter of arms reduction is Italy, which likes to rattle the sword but really cannot afford the martial trappings of a Great Power. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy last week accepted the invitation of Secretary Stimson to go to the White House on Nov. 14 to discuss the world's economic plight. His visit will follow that of Premier Pierre Laval of France, who was to sail for the U. S. Oct. 16. Already on their way to the U. S. were Deputy-Governor Charles Farmer...
Crescent's Tip, Petite Masako, Baroness Shidehara is an Iwasaki, daughter of Japan's No. 2 house of merchant princes (Mitsubishi), the famed Mitsui being No. 1. When she married Diplomat Shidehara he was no baron though he belonged to a Samurai (feudal sword bearer) family. In the past 30 years he has held diplomatic posts almost everywhere, but got his real leg up to greatness as Chief of the Telegraph Section of the Foreign Office, a key post because the holder has access to all Foreign Office codes & secrets, and secrets play a major role in the devious statecraft...
...story by Oscar Wilde, the statue of the Happy Prince was weeping for the poor. A swallow, pitying the Happy Prince, obligingly carried to the poor the ruby from the statue's sword, the sapphires from the eyes, the gold leaf that clothed all. In doing this, the swallow stayed north too long. Winter came and the swallow died of cold. The Prince's heart cracked. The Town Councillors, squabbling over the Prince's metal body. threw the heart and the small dead bird on an ash heap from which an angel carried them to heaven...