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...King's Parting with His Favorite discloses a woebegone king who must hasten off to battle, whom nothing can console until his favorite does her sword dance, after which he is exultant and leaves her to her moaning. Oldest of Mei Lan-Fang's selections, this play was written two centuries before Christ...
...what he meant when he associated the Negro with the jackass-I mean the ass -what he meant when he called us 'docile animals.' . . . I'm sure no insult was meant but when he used those words, it hurt. It cut like a two-edged sword through the heart of every Negro and we Negroes would leave this hall with a bad taste in our mouth if no explanation was forthcoming...
...with a sword, but with a rational plan." President William Green of American Federation of Labor journeyed into the South last week on a new crusade. His object: peaceful organization of disorganized Southern labor. His stipulation: admission by employers of their employes' right to organize...
...merely the right, but the absolute duty of an officer, if insulted by a civilian in the presence of witnesses to draw his service weapon [sword] and immediately silence the offender...
...Arthur Schnitzler has pointed out in a story (Leutnant Gustl), officers themselves may become the victims of the Code. He tells of a young lieutenant, insulted by a burly civilian, who attempts to draw, only to have the fellow seize his wrist and threaten to break his sword. If it breaks, the Lieutenant knows that, according to military honor, he must commit suicide. Luckily for the Lieutenant, Author Schnitzler demolishes the civilian in the nick of time by a stroke of apoplexy...