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...short time after they organized, Albert Marre, who was at the law school, joined them, bringing his wife, Jan Farrand. During rehearsal for one of their first productions, "Henry IV Part I," the HVW almost lost its leading lady. One of the members of the cast, brandishing a sword, swung it around his head. The handle broke, and the sword flew out to the audience, at Miss Farand. Luckily for the Brattle, she was hit by the side of the sword, knocked cold but uninjured. Miss Farand recovered quickly and "Henry IV" was a huge success...
...Evelyn Baring, Governor of Kenya, pulled on his medal-hung tunic with the silver & gold epaulettes, buckled on his ivory-handled sword, and patted his plumed cocked hat into place. Then he climbed into his big black Humber and drove into Nairobi to open, in the name of the Queen, the 56-man Legislative Council (42 Europeans, 6 Africans, 6 Indians, 2 Arabs) that serves as Kenya's parliament...
...improve his parliamentary technique, he traveled everywhere with a phonograph on which he played records of the speeches of Britain's Victorian Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, was soon throwing such high-caliber cliches at the Opposition as "Sword of Damocles" and "Bed of Procrustes." On one such occasion the Speaker of the House, a sensitive man, collapsed, crying with his dying breath: "Dreadful, dreadful...
...casts Peter Lawford as a Raffle-ish amateur cracksman who steals both outsize emeralds and ladies' hearts. Lawford has to interrupt these interesting pursuits temporarily when the police suspect him of being the Terror, a nasty fellow who slinks about skewering London bobbies on a three-foot sword. Disguising himself as a bobby, Lawford gives Scotland Yard an invaluable assist in tracking down the Terror, thereby further endearing himself to the police commissioner's beautiful daughter (Dawn Addams), whom he has already captivated with such gems of repartee as: "I think if a jewel thief looked...
...solutions, then, bankrupt solutions, devoid of any long-range considerations, and devoted primarily to buttering up voters by away of their pocket books and their love for their children. Its philosophical basis is the archaic notion that the West can enforce its image of Asia by the sword, and a childish insistence on "getting it over with...