Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before him, as agent of the people, and persuades himself into a change of heart. Mrs. Seward is intractable, and like Lysistrata, she takes council with the women, who decide not to give the country any more men. She goes from lecture hall to lecture hall, even though her arm is broken when an enemy aviator topples a piece of the Empire State Building on her. She is heckled and hooted, her house ransacked. Her son, her disciple, finally swells out his chest, lumps his throat a bit, hides it with a firm chin, and goes...
...cruiser, her anchor ports swathed in damp bunting. The vessel did not budge. Under her steel flanks a workman hurt his ankle, was carried off. The band played "Over There." The boat still stood still. Then the band played "Anchors Aweigh." The cruiser began to move. With one arm full of roses, pretty Miss Cora Stanton Jahncke smashed a bottle of Mississippi water across the retreating bow, declaiming: "I christen thee N'yawlins...
...stood he spied a kneeling man who towered above the others. He asked the prelate at his side, ''Isn't that Primo Camera?" It was. Said the Pope, who disapproves of prizefighting. "It seems God could not enrich him physically more abundantly." When he raised his arm to bless the group, he gestured specially at Italy's heavyweight champion...
Houdini was witness to one of the exhibitions of mediumship. Having fastened Margery in a box with only her head and arms free, Houdini felt along her arm with his own hand until it had passed through the hole in the box. Then the voice of Walter, the spirit, intervened. "What did you do that for, Houdini? You--! Putting up a plant like that on a girl. There is a ruler in that cabinet...
During the seance the "teleplasmic" arm appeared, stretched forth a "cold, slimy finger which felt as though it had flexible bones in it," and engaged in a regular handshake with the professor...