Word: sword
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Your recent summary of Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison's leading editorial on Prohibition (in the Christian Century, ''only Dry weekly") I read with interest (TIME, Dec. 1). I also noted marginal comment, a counter sword play, wherein statement was made that TIME is neutral on Prohibition as on all other national issues. You then openly retaliated. While assigning sincerity to the man, you took occasion to say that he also cherished a selfish motive in writing as he did: namely, to swell the coffers of the Christian Century. In that respect he is no more selfish than...
...Star-hernberg, trounced at the last election (TIME, Nov. 17), failed last week to make good their threat to seize the State by armed power. Amid perfect calm Dr. Otto Ender, one more henchman of Austrian boss-politician Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, assumed the Chancellorship. He did not reappoint sword-rattling Prince von Starhemberg to His Highness' former post of Minister of Interior, appointed no Fascist whatever...
...Frumkin), Brooklyn toreador, that he could not hold a bullfight in New Jersey. Toreador Franklin had planned one for next week. He wanted to show U. S. citizens how he did it in Spain. He promised that it would be a gentle fight. He planned to use a rubber sword, pad the bull's horns. He said he would wave his cape and let the bull run at him. But not unless it was absolutely necessary would the bull be harmed...
...Tyrant. An unfailing source of excitement are the works of Rafael Sabatini, famed sword-&-cloakster. The Tyrant is not a dramatization of. any of the author's 25 novels, but amounts to an extract of all of them. The story is based on the conquests of Cesare Borgia in middle Italy...
Placing the 3-lb. golden circlet of sapphires, rubies and diamonds upon the Emperor's woolly head, he continued, "Gird the sword upon thy loins, yet rule in Peace! May the Lord God, supreme ruler of men, bless and glorify thy reign, and may He ever keep thee and thy consort in His bosom...