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...preferred Armillita, who worked in the decadent style of the imitators of Belmonte and (Lorenzo Garza thought) was not of sufficient worth to exhibit himself mano a mano with El Magnifico in the Plaza de Toros in Mexico City. Lorenzo Garza spat in the sand. Then he drew his sword from underneath the muleta, profiled and lunged at the bull...
...which neither side stood to gain. The French, with their hands tied to the Axis, could hope only to lose as little as possible; while Thailand, easily egged into the war by Japan, could hardly hope to control whatever it won. Only likely winner was Japan, whose sword-rattling, fleet-maneuvering "mediation'' set all the Orient abuzz, and who will presumably dominate any areas ceded to Thailand...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, in its that-ain't-haydays, used to put on a U. S. opera almost every year. None was ever good enough to stay put. A typical one was a 1913 number about the swashbuckling, sword-nosed French poet of the 17th Century, Cyrano de Bergerac. Its better-than-average libretto was blank-versified out of Edmond Rostand's play by the late William J. Henderson, musicritic of the New York Sun. Its workmanlike score was put together, out of a wide knowledge of Wagner and other masters, by a conductor...
Making his vow and donning his razor blades, Sir John challenged the Worm. They fought on a rock in the river, and after the Worm had wounded itself on the blades Sir John hacked it in two with his sword. One half floated down the river and, unable to rejoin, the Worm died. But Sir John did not kill the next living creature he saw. It was his father. The next nine generations of Lambtons died violent deaths...
...tall muscular men of reddish-yellow skin, long and silky black hair, small noses, delicate hands, Berbers whose women go barefaced but who themselves wear dark blue veils. They ride the extraordinary Mehari camel, which can travel 125 miles a day. They arm themselves with a straight, double-edged sword almost four feet long, daggers bound to their left forearms, and spears and leather shields...