Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the technical weaknesses of most films manufactured in England but it recreates for its audiences the excitement which made the Dreyfus case a scandal, a tragedy and a political upheaval as well as a cause celebre. Good shot: Dreyfus (Cedric Hardwicke) having his buttons pulled off and his sword broken...
...Author has enriched his pages with painstaking scholarship, has attained some of the flavor of the historical novels of Scott and Stevenson. But only in the last chapters of The Blanket oj the Dark does his story drop its studious tempo, achieve the needed breathlessness of cloak-&-sword drama. Aged 55, John Buchan served in the War as London Times correspondent and as intelligence officer, has written a capable history of it. He lives at Oxford, serves as Member of Parliament besides writing and publishing. Says he: "I have to live on a very strict schedule. From Monday to Friday...
When Highlanders gather they play loudly and persistently on bagpipes: piobaireachds (traditional laments), marches, pibrochs (battle-cries), strathspeys and reels (dances). They dance highland flings, reels, jigs, sword dances and hornpipes. They compete at putting the shot and tossing the caber (a heavy pole). To do all these things in Banff last week came, Scots from all over Canada. To see and hear came 10,000 guests, including Lieutenant Governors Dr. William Egbert of Alberta, Hon. James Duncan McGregor of Manitoba, Hon. H. W. Newlands of Saskatchewan, Premiers John E. Brownlee of Alberta and S. F. Tolmie of British Columbia...
Tristan the Hero, wounded by Traitor Melot's sword thrust, was dying one night last week on the stage of the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth, Germany. As Kurvenal, his faithful manservant, stood by him, Tristan sang feverishly, sometimes shouting, sometimes sinking into exhausted murmurs. Patiently the audience attended his efforts. But a larger audience, more excited, spread all over the world, listened to Tristan und Isolde through loudspeakers. It was a tradition-breaking radio broadcast: first one to come from Bayreuth. To insure its excellence, all other broadcasting in Germany had been hushed. The Reichs Rundfunk Gesellschaft sent...
...surrender in which just 37 persons appeared and only three of them were British.† All the British soldiers had laid down their arms and passed from the picture before the actual surrender occurred. . . . General Cornwallis, being indisposed, asked his subordinate General Charles O'Hara to present the sword, denoting defeat. General Washington designated General Benjamin Lincoln to accept it. I believe Washington did not even allow his men to cheer...