Word: swordsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashionable Boulogne, Burton devoted himself to writing, swordsmanship and pretty women. Of farthest-reaching consequences was his bold self-introduction to tall, beautiful, 19-year-old Isabel Arundell, closely guarded daughter of an aristocratic English Catholic family. To his "painful" smile on the street one day she responded by whispering tremulously to her sister, "That man will marry me." Afterwards she maneuvered a formal introduction, was quickly forgotten by Burton in his characteristically thorough plans for a pilgrimage to Mecca...
...beautiful exhibition of swordsmanship the champion downed Alessandroni, the runner-up and his most formidable opponent, by a score of 5-2. Allesandroni was national champion in 1934 and has been a member of the Olympic squad since 1931. Both he and Lewis have sure berths on the U. S. team...
...blabbing what Army secrets General Hayashi did not say, sent Japan's garrison and division commanders away under a public cloud of suspicion. Still the darkest of current Japanese Army secrets remained the reason why General Nagata, Director of Military Affairs, was run through the chest by Army Swordsmanship Instructor Colonel Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26), who sat in jail last week purse-lipped. In general Japan's scrappy little war machine suffers from chronic super-patriotism in the lower ranks, jampacked with zealots who imagine that their generals are too soft and that Japan's current Premier...
Impassive as wax, His Majesty gave ear. There had been another of those patriotic assassinations. The respected Army swordsmanship instructor, Lieut-Colonel Aizawa, after praying devoutly at the Imperial Family's Meiji Shrine, had called on the chief executive officer of the Japanese Army, Lieut-General Tetsuzan Nagata, Director of Military Affairs, and proceeded to run him expertly through the vitals...
Anthony's mother was the wife of Machiavellian Don Luis da Vincitata, but Don Luis was not his father. His mother died in the wintry Alpine inn where she bore him; his reckless young father saw the point of Don Luis' swordsmanship too late. The nameless orphan was deposited anonymously by Don Luis at a Livorno convent. After a peaceful childhood there he was adopted by old John Bonnyfeather. Scottish merchant in Livorno and actually his grandfather. Both suspected their relationship but neither, out of respect for his mother's memory, ever openly acknowledged it. Anthony...