Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibly be. But don't let anybody mistake my position. That the tenure of office of the Mayor of the greatest city in the world should depend upon his detective ability is to me more or less unthinkable, particularly when the committee with $750,000 behind it and the arm of the State of New York and with the power that the law would give to him was unable to do what they say we all should have done...
...other country the consequence of such a move would have been immediate turmoil, but the body politic of China is so loosely articulated that it can lose an arm or a leg without feeling it for weeks. So China drifted along last week. Not so Chiang Kaishek. Night after night he was up all night. Airplanes - several piloted by U. S. flyers - roared out to Shanghai, Hankow, Peiping, carrying messages too secret to be telegraphed, even in code. Stubborn Wang remained in hiding in the French concession at Shanghai, refusing to withdraw his resignation or to stick so much...
...first Japanese victory in the Xth Olympiad was won last week in the 100-metre free style swim, when 17-year-old Yasuji Miyazaki of Tokyo, who had set an Olympic record in his semifinal heat, won by an arm's length, with Tatsugo Kawaishi. his teammate, second...
...Correspondent (Columbia). If the journalist in this picture wore a patch on his eye instead of a sling on his arm, Hearst-Reporter Floyd Gibbons might have good grounds for a libel suit. Correspondent Franklin Bennett (Ralph Graves) chatters rapidly into microphones while covering Sino-Japanese hostilities and has several even more unpleasant traits. He is a craven poseur who romanticizes his newsgathering exploits hoping that his public will consider him a hero. The antagonism between Ralph Graves and Jack Holt which has been maintained through several recent pictures is more bitter than usual in this one. Holt...
...College have been so haphazard as to select Groucho. thinly disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho is shaving his false mustache in a portable mirror while puffing a stogie. The retiring president asks him to throw away the cigar. Groucho Marx casts a look at the faculty of Huxley and says: "There'll be no diving for this cigar." He goes on puffing. Carried...