Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Williams required all his urbanity and parliamentary skill to keep the convention's business meetings from riot. Many Negro Baptists have become discontented with his long tenure of the presidency. This year they had as a sword over his head a scandal...
...avoid a church scandal, he has permitted the publishing house books to be doctored to hide the money theft. His friends deny this vehemently. Pierson, they aver, was murdered not because he carried incriminating records, but because he, a notorious philanderer, had vexed some wench's man. This sword of scandal the "enemies" tried to plunge into the head of their convention. But all during last week's sessions Dr. Williams kept bobbing out of harm, skillfully, urbanely...
...moment the Treasury Department drew a sharp economic sword, brandished it menacingly at Soviet Russia. Anti-Reds clamored for a general onslaught upon U. S.-U. S. S. R. trade. Last week the Treasury thrust its weapon back into the scabbard...
...five minutes. Proroguing Parliament is a lengthy and a solemn business. Last week putting an end to the 13-month session of Parliament (longest since the War) Lieut. General Sir William Pulteney, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, in black velvet, with lace on his cuffs and a sword at his side, walked from the House of Lords down the corridor to the House of Commons where the door was ceremoniously slammed in his face. Knocking three times with his Rod, he entered the House, bowed to the Speaker, to the Government party, to the Opposition party, and invited them...
...modern design rears beside the peaceful slope. A post orifice and police station have been erected to the left of the Festspielhaus, whose lawns, traditionally unkempt, have been carefully trimmed. Geometric flower beds sharpen the contrast to the former natural wilderness of the scene. Across the road the iron sword of Siegfried. Nothung, no longer flaunts its misinterpretation of a Wagnerian passage, placed there in Wartime. Sword and inscription have been removed. At the Villa Wahnfried, the end of the reign of the inexorable Cosima is signalized by flowers on the window ledge, the removal of iron bars from...