Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That the Lindberghs are guilty of "petty treason" . . . may be a little strongly put. It does seem rather a poor commentary on the "land of the free," however, when its most representative citizen scorns the arm of the law and resorts to the help of gangsters and racketeers in getting back his child. On the other hand I wonder if August W. would mind letting us know whether or not he is a father...
...automobile owned by a Nashville, Tenn. family went hurtling through the side of a barn without puncturing a tire. Luther Kelley of Sylacauga. Ala. lost his second wife. His first died in the tornado of 1917. At Cleveland, Tenn. an infant was snatched from its mother's arms, dropped into a well, drowned. An Alabama farmer hung on a barbed-wire fence while the wind tore him to pieces. A Georgian sailed into a tree with a piece of wood through his arm, hung there helpless all night. One Tom Marcum went out in his yard at Piney Grove...
...Royal Highness the widowed Grand Duchess Feodora of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is still very much alive. Last week the Premier of Thuringia yielded gallantly to the regal Duchess who is 41. She sailed sedately into the Grand Ducal Mausoleum (where Poet Goethe lies buried near her husband) on the arm of no less a personage than the Chancellor of all Germany, pale, ascetic, thin-lipped Dr. Heinrich Bruning, 47. As Democracy thus squired Autocracy to the tomb of Genius, a witness was Comrade Anatoly Lunacharsky representing the Soviet Power. All over Russia on this day last week Soviet celebrations honored...
...threatened Japanese withdrawal from the League of Nations "if its commission [now investigating Manchuria] continues to show ignorance of Far Eastern conditions." Demanding that more Japanese troops be sent to Manchuria, General Araki said (as nearly as his flowerings can be translated) : "The problems confronting the Empire's defense arm are of such magnitude and profound importance as to transcend those of our Siberian expeditions in 1918 [when Japanese and other Allied troops penetrated far into Soviet territory]. From certain viewpoints the present situation is even more serious than the Russo-Japanese...
...adventures in childish asceticism, giving away all his toys, pricking his cheeks with oleander leaves, ended when his father made him give some strips of his skin to graft on a peasant's arm. From the family attic he stole a mummified arm, scared a schoolboy into fits with it. Childhood came to an end when he was sent off to learn from a priest. On his way home after the interview he passed a dead willow, with a hollow branch that looked like a snake's head. Into the hollow he stuck the contents of his pockets...