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Swift and terrible as a sword-thrust is angina pectoris. Disease or degeneration may narrow the blood vessels which supply the heart, or a tiny clot dam one of them. Then, usually with exertion or emotion, excruciating pain stabs the heart, radiates through the chest, shoots down the left arm. With the pain comes a feeling of suffocation, an anguished sense of impending death. Sometimes Death comes with the first attack; sometimes, as it did to Banker Otto H. Kahn last week (see p. 63), after many...
...singular lack of efficiency and distinguished absence of diplomacy in the recent dognapping case. Charles R. Apted '06 of the Yard Police was requested by his commanding officers to hand in his sword, and at an impressive ceremony early this morning upon his return from New Haven was stripped of his regimentals and was reduced to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, a position he has not held since early in his career...
...Confederate flag of truce and a white linen handkerchief used as a truce signal by Custer at Appomattox, to the U. S. War Department; a pine table used in the Grant-Lee surrender ceremony, a letter presenting the table to Mrs. Custer by General Phil Sheridan, Custer's sword & scabbard and other mementoes, to the Smithsonian Institution...
...Every regiment was represented by a squad of nine men, marching abreast, the colonel at one end, a private at the other. King Albert's coffin, draped in the national flag, rode on a gun carriage. His trench helmet, wreathed in laurel, his military overcoat and his sword were laid on top. Behind the caisson was led his charger, Titanic, a huge bay with white feet. The King's boots were reversed in the stirrups...
...Next he worked on Go Daigo's army with bribes. Finally in 1335 he set himself up as Shogun at Kamakura. Go Daigo, refusing to recognize him, fled south to Yoshino but remembered to take the sacred mirror of the Sun Goddess, the sacred jewel and the sacred sword-symbols of his right to reign. Takauji. well aware that his title of Shogun was empty as long as it lacked the sanction of a reigning descendant of the Sun Goddess, looked for a Puppet Emperor. By 1336 Japan presented the strange picture of an Empire straddling two Emperors...