Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obliged by rigid etiquet to have no children, lest they should have a son discourteously ahead of the Emperor. Thus with the greatest national and most exquisitely personal regret it was learned that the babe born last week is another girl. She was at once presented with a short sword, nine and one-half inches long, a symbolic gift from her thwarted father the Emperor, Son of Heaven...
...combats a sorcerer in settings and among characters taken from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin is there, though now he has to light his lamp instead of rubbing it to summon genii. There are the Sultan, the Magic Horse, the fairy Peri-Banov, the Princess Dinarzade. Like contortionism and sword-swallowing, the picture is remarkable principally because its technique was difficult, but it is a nice fairy story. Good shots among the 300,000 scenes that had to be built with Chinese perseverance and separately photographed to make this feature that runs an hour: storm-tossed waves with gleaming white crests...
...Walter Lippmann's "Valedictory," ending with a quotation from Mr. Valiant-For-Truth in The Pilgrim's Progress: "Though with great difficulty I am got thither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I had been at to arrive where I am: My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it." On the front page was placed the farewell message of the Brothers Pulitzer, announcing that $500,000-the Scripps-Howard down payment-would be distributed among the employes...
Most dramatic appearance of Marshal Pilsudski, complete with private car and sword, was in 1927, when he flabbergasted professionally peaceful Geneva. Arriving in full panoply at the League of Nations Secretariat, Poland's Dictator made for the League Council room, soon confronted Professor Augustine Valdemaras, Prime Minister of Lithuania, fixed him with a baleful glare...
...professor had been arguing previously that it is scarcely right for Poland to hold Vilna, since that city was ceded to Lithuania by treaty. Suddenly with a clank of his great sword, Marshal Pilsudski stomped to his feet, turned upon Dr. Valdemaras...