Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landing, seized two German long-range telescopic cameras. While several Milan correspondents vouched for this news, the Dictator's official press bureau blandly announced that there had been no such incident, the theory of Benito Mussolini being that when Nazis have to be curbed by their own strong-arm methods, the less said about it the better...
Once King Henry VIII loved nothing better than to throw his arm about the neck of the author of Utopia and stroll with Sir Thomas More in his garden by the Thames. Of his sovereign, Sir Thomas said: ''If my head should win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go.'' But More's head went for a different purpose. Becoming Chancellor of England in 1529, this pious Catholic scholar and lawyer opposed Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his plan to make himself head of the English church. Gentle...
...distracted everyone's attention. Then Huey Long drove up with twelve policemen as his bodyguard and stopped to buy a bag of peanuts at the gate. The band struck up "Every Man a King," and Huey, entering with a Bible and a copy of Liberty Magazine under one arm. joined in the chorus. By that time there were 8,000 Iowa farmers in the audience...
...special steaks and chops. His trainer, Angus Macdonald, gave him violet rays, electric massages, cold spray baths, hydrotherapeutic and other scientific treatments. He secured the ideal job, pushing a wheelbarrow in a greenhouse, ran back & forth to work each day with a lunch box under his arm. This winter, in addition, he did a private marathon three times a week. To pass the time not spent in running, John Adelbert Kelley likes sketching pictures, smoking cigars of which he had time to puff three last week while describing his achievements...
...King's Weigh House Chapel in London where she and George Young were married. Her casket was a teakwood trunk, carved to represent a lotus, the flower that she loved best. On his return to Manhattan, George Young walked down the gangplank bearing a box under either arm. One contained Lillian Nordica's jewels, the other her ashes...