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There could be only one result. For hours the Ethiopian Guard fought off the Alpini advance, firing from rock to rock, sword against bayonet. When the Ethiopian position became completely untenable, Italian officers saw for the first time an orderly planned retreat. But Italy had heavy artillery and plenty of bombs and pounded Ethiopia's second position just as hard. Finally the Imperial Guard broke and ran for its collective lives. Haile Selassie with only a fistful of followers streaked off toward Dessye, while the Roman Press burgeoned with reports that the Conquering Lion of Judah was about ready...
...sword on what you can get with a stroke...
...answer a Japanese officer's heavy sword then & there hacked, slashed and butchered the greatest Japanese Finance Minister in all history...
Thence, knighthood in my blood, I to seek a lady to serve. Whereupon comes the Old Woman, but today, very strange, she did look most fair. "Madame, this day I am your Knight; but bid me and with one stroke of my sword I'll wipe out the whole damn scrubbing business!" Whereupon she did throw me down the stairs...
Last week in Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, eleven swords in highly polished scabbards lay neatly spaced upon a horseshoe table. Behind each sword sat a general officer of the Army in full-dress uniform. In front of the table, nervously eyeing the eleven swords, sat an undistinguished, heavy-set man named Joseph Silverman Jr. who had made his everlasting fortune buying & selling surplus Army equipment. Also in front of the table, eyeing the eleven swords even more nervously, sat Colonel Joseph I. McMullen, long time legal adviser to the Assistant Secretary of War. Opening was a general court-martial...