Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less in jeopardy than old Samuel last week was young Samuel Jr. His arm still black-banded for the death of his wife last February, he hovered solicitously over his father, grinned at the Press, was quieter in court. Occasionally he stole a glance at the second row of the spectators' benches. There, straight and prim as a Quaker, sat his pretty mother. Last July she had followed her husband back from their European exile, travelling tourist class on the Majestic, announcing that she had come to stand by him. In Chicago she had abashed vociferous newshawks by gravely quoting...
...Harry Whinna Nice, Republican candidate for Governor of Maryland, hurried off to attend a meeting of his campaign finance committee at the home of a Baltimore banker. In the banker's dark and unfamiliar garden, Candidate Nice toppled down a short flight of stone steps, fractured his right arm. Arm and shoulder in plaster cast, he continued to campaign...
...almost exactly as it had happened to Franz Ferdinand of Austria on a hot July day in 1914 in Alexander's Serbia. Quick as a squirrel a nondescript youth ducked under the police line, leaped to the running board of the royal car. His pistol was scarcely an arm's length from the King as he began to fire. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! A sabre crashed on the assassin's head. His next shots went wild but the first had done their work. Minister Barthou clutched at his arm. King Alexander jerked, stiffened, then crumpled and slid...
...Come on," cried the young folk, "let's pose arm-in-arm...
...guards. The referee, famed Fencing Master Phillippe Cattiaux, held out his rapier and the combatants rested the needle points of their shivering blades on it. The referee dropped his rapier. Zing! Clang! M. La Chambre slashed M. Renouvin's blade aside, stuck M. Renouvin decisively in his working arm. A few seconds old, the duel was over. M. La Chambre was no assassin and M. Renouvin was only a rioter, but neither man was willing to shake hands...