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...chorus) Away! Away! With sword...
...telephone linesman, a chauffeur, a power company clerk, a tailor, a correspondence school salesman. Some belonged to the Army and Navy reserves or the National Guard; one was a captain. The props included twelve Springfield rifles, 3,500 rounds of ammunition reportedly stolen from National Guard armories, one long sword, 18 cans of cordite powder, a collection of soup and beer cans with accessories for turning them into bombs, four belts of machine-gun ammunition, four .22 rifles...
...bright and valiant knight yclept Sir Vagabond did brace himself for that full mighty deed. Ablution did he make within the chapel, and from the kindly priest did calm and courage take; and from the holy chalice imbibed deep draughts of the juice of the purple grape. His sturdy sword and buckler did he grasp, and kissed for the last time the dainty sleeve which to him his betrothed, the Lily Maid of Noanett, had bequeathed . . . the Lily Maid with lips so red, and bosom white as driven snow...
...that very moment, a spiritual rebirth was foreseen,-a new day which was to loose the captives and to consume the conquerors in the fire of their own kindling; and those who had taken the sword were to perish by the sword...
...John Gunther goes on patiently revising his excellent and informative "Inside Europe" to fit changing political scene. And his "Inside Asia" does as much for that continent as his first book did for the scene of the current catastrophe. Which is saying a great deal. . . ."Not Peace But a Sword" is Vincent Sheean's latest book, a history of Europe from March, 1938 to March 1939, It would be interesting to see what changes the book would undergo if Mr. Sheean were to rewrite it now that he has forsworn Soviet Russia once and for all. Nevertheless, a fine book...