Word: sword
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...freshman say, "Well, it's the Air Service for mine in the next war." We wondered how many men craning their necks from other vantage points on the campus were saying the same thing. There is something unexorably alluring about an effective tool for war, whether it be a sword, a pistol, or a submarine. And once you've got the weapons, there is a well nigh uncontrollable desire to use them, as the world of 1914 bears witness...
...strangely enough the fact that she is really Japanese adds little to the show, detracts from the pleasant unreality of the doings in the town of Titipu. Librettist Gilbert knew nothing and cared less about things Japanese. The opera suggested itself to him as he gazed at a curved sword on his English study wall...
Things had been going quite well. Up in Hupeh province government troops had just put to flight Communist General Ho Lung. They captured 1,800 of his soldiers, made them kneel in long rows while down each row tramped a government executioner with a great, broad sword. Swish, swish, swish, 1,800 heads fell. General Ho, as he fled, dropped like hot cakes Miss Esther Nordlund, 34 (and Miss Augusta Nelson, 50), missionaries (TIME, May 4). They reached Hankow safely last week, gave the first account of little-known, muchdreaded General...
...obliged by rigid etiquet to have no children, lest they should have a son discourteously ahead of the Emperor. Thus with the greatest national and most exquisitely personal regret it was learned that the babe born last week is another girl. She was at once presented with a short sword, nine and one-half inches long, a symbolic gift from her thwarted father the Emperor, Son of Heaven...
Even if a boy, the babe would still have received a sword, its significance being "to ward off evil." Being a girl, the pink babe was also presented with a purple skirt, "emblematic of femininity." She was then turned over to her two wet nurses, wives of army officers. Diligent, they have been studying Yamato Kotoba, the special court language, for months, will be able to address the suckling princess properly...