Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your true swashbuckler cannot even rest without his sword. Nearly every day this month Marshal Josef Pilsudski, erratic War Minister and Dictator of Poland, has roared at some member of his entourage...
...What about my sword! Have those ? ? French found it yet? I want my sword...
Last week Andrew William Mellon again unsheathed a sharp economic sword against Soviet Russia. He forbade any lumber or any pulpwood from four great areas of North Russia to enter...
...Salle d'Armes Vince team won the national three-weapon championship of the Amateur Fencers League of America principally because they were more youthful, in better condition than their experienced opponents. With the foils, against the limited target of a padded chest; with the stiffer French duelling sword or epee, with which hits count when scored on any part of the body; with the sabre in the conventionalized contests that have developed from a ferocious slashing to a technique of no unnecessary movements, they beat the Fencers Club and the New York A. C. in the finals. Best match...
...about 12, a pagan Roman, Sempronius, insisted she marry his pagan son and renounce Christianity. She refused. Where upon Sempronius ordered her outraged. Miraculously she preserved her virginity. Then Sempronius ordered her burned at the stake. The fagots would not ignite. Thereupon the officer commanding her captors drew his sword and brutally sliced her head from her shoulders. This happened Jan. 21, 304, in the reign of Diocletian...