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From the shore came eight pinnaces, carrying eight captains, all in full dress uniform, who were piped aboard the Eagle with traditional honor. They were the Court. They sat down to give judgment, without removing their imposing cocked hats. With portentous gravity they took into custody the sword of the accused...
...therein lies an analogy, or at worst a similarity. If education makes it possible for these foreign students to speak comprehensible English, it has one point in favor of its finally producing the mutual understanding among peoples, so long desired, so slow to come. Not that Mussolini's sword-shaking is a symptom of insufficient linguistic knowledge; still, be never had the opportunity afforded by model assemblies of the League of Nations. All in all, there are possibilities in this sort of meeting. There is one great defect, however; the model assemblies can offer no model Alps to amuse bored...
...ancient City Wall?indicated last week by a red silken cord. Pompously My Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Albert Batho, approached, clad in his robes of ermine and crimson velvet, heavy with his golden chains of office. Respectfully yet proudly he tendered to His Majesty the Sword & Keys of the City. Graciously George V touched both, symbolizing that he accepted the permission to enter accorded by the Lord Mayor...
...Goodwin has taken to the larger field of international diplomacy. The unfortunate situation created by Secretary MacDonald's reference to squirrels and Mexican generals in his statement about Mr. Goodwin is still more entangled by the latter's course. It was bad enough for the Commonwealth to be at sword's points with one foreign power; now Mr. Goodwin would bring Sweden into the fray, and his pointed allusion to the Sacco-Vanzetti commission of last summer may annoy the irritable Signor Mussolini and cause Italy to be arrayed among the enemies of Massachusetts...
...week after our marriage, and who has been a good shipmate during these many years"-has an exciting chapter "Fishy" ending with a quoted instruction for "landing" the biggest possible swordfish aboard a dory in the open ocean: "Fasten his tail over the gunwale to the afterthwart; put his sword over your shoulder; put your big finger in his eyeball; grab him with your other hand near his tail; when she rolls to leeward pull hard as the boat rolls back, and the 'Cot damn fish he got to come...