Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beside himself, laid hold of the massy golden emblem, raised it to his shoulder and attempted to scurry out of the House! Up at once, aghast and furious, leaped Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, the Sergeant-at-Arms, to dash from his pew in pursuit. But Sir Colin's ceremonial sword caught in the pew, delaying him, and it was a spry messenger who overtook Beckett, took the Mace from him, handed it to Sir Colin when he arrived. Sir Corin then, with measured tread and awesome frown, marched back with Cromwell's "bauble," restored it to its place...
...sake of Progress, for the safety of his progressive régime Dictator Kemal was forced to put such arrant, desperate reactionaries to the sword. In one respect his own capital, progressive Angora, is retrograde. It no longer produces peerless Angora cats. But of all coats the Angora has still the longest, silkiest haired...
...bull-breeder, a Madrid police official, a Matador (sword man), a Picador (lance man), a Banderillero (dart man), a member of the association of Bull-Fighting Impresarios, a sports writer, a veterinary surgeon, a season-ticket holder at the Madrid Plaza ring, all under the chairmanship of Madrid's Director of Public Safety, have been sitting as a high national committee to consider and meticulously represcribe the details of Spain's great national pastime, bull-killing...
...Chicago, surgeons saved the life of Wynan King, a sword swallower who had swallowed a dime...
...courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...