Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elite Black Shirts, added Leader Mosley, will be used as "ushers" (i.e. bouncers and strong-arm men) at Mosley mass meetings. Until recently the average dedicated Black Shirt carried a rubber blackjack known as a "Mosley truncheon," but this, Sir Oswald insists, has been put aside. "They were only used," he announced dramatically, "after our men had been slashed for weeks by the Communists with razors...
...Germany will re-arm herself as much and as quickly as she can," sail Jules Blache, Exchange Professor from France, maitre de conferences a la Faculte des Letires, shortly after his arrival in Cambridge yesterday. "It is not a question of France's giving her consent or withholding it; the Germans, as soon as they have the money and the materials, will start to build up their armaments...
...careful not to reach too roughly, for probably one-third of dislocated shoulders repeat the accident. Dr. Toufick Nicola of Manhattan prevents the repetition by cutting part of one of the tendons of the shoulder joint (biceps tendon) and drilling a hole through the upper portion of the arm bone (humerus). Dr. Nicola then laces the cut biceps tendon through the hole and fixes it at the other end of the joint. The tendon thus effectively straps the loose joint together...
...City Censor McNary is a successor of City Censor John Michael Casey, longtime trap drummer in Boston burlesque houses. When a railroad accident cost him his arm, Mr. Casey abandoned his career as a tympanist, became a zealous overseer of Boston's morals...
Black and swollen, one morning, was the right little finger of Cinemactor Warner Baxter. By noon his right hand and arm were throbbing painfully. They, too, were black and swollen before a doctor determined that a Black Widow spider had bitten Baxter while he slept...