Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the 90 tycoons had finished this platform, they looked upon it, thought it a friendly overture. Chairman Ames of the conference put it under his arm and started to Washington to offer it and his own right hand to President Roosevelt. But a Right hand can never know for sure when a Left hand will shake and when it will not. At the White House Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre told Mr. Ames that the President was too busy to see him that...
Fifty individual spaces, Mr. Durant announced yesterday, will soon be donated to the student cause in their unending war with the "tag and ticket" arm...
...white Percherons?an unusually large hitch even for those horse days. Reaching the sidewalk I turned to give a second glance and then burst into uproarious laughter. . . . Greenough's George Washington had appeared through the haze of snow, and towering there ten feet high, naked to the waist, one arm raised to heaven, riding in state to a fitting limbo of an obscure storage niche in the Museum, seemed to be driving that six-horse team...
...courtroom evidence of police brutality usually moves juries to acquit. "No policeman is justified in using brutality simply for brutality." declared Police Commissioner Theodore J. Roche of San Francisco. "It strikes me," declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every time you make an arrest." Only Denver's Police Chief George Marland would go part way with Commissioner Valentine. "Dead right," said he of the New Yorker's dictum that police should shoot first...
Celebrities thus recorded include: Photographer Cecil Beaton in a cocked hat at the feet of a plaster Venus; Walter P. Chrysler Jr. bending over a friend's shoulder; Crooner Lanny Ross about to eat a cheese snap; Dancer Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream...