Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excluding royalty, there are only 20 Dukes in England. One of these goldrushed last week. Carrying a coronet under his arm as though it were a derby hat, His Grace (the Press shielded his name) entered a dealer's shop, escorted by his daughter, and plunked the thing down. The dealer wrote out a check for 15,000 paper pounds, gave it to the Duke who beamingly departed, announced that the coronet had been worn by the Duke and his ancestors at openings of Parliament for over 100 years...
...Bristed, Andrew D. White, W. W. Phelps, Poultney Bigelow, Owen Johnson. But still the old mother hustles along, dragging her rebellious children at her skirts. They kick her shins and bawl and pound her with their fists, but still she hustles along. See her broad back, her mighty arms and legs, and ample breasts that suckled those ungrateful brats. Her dress is torn, her hair is mussed, and sweat stands on her cheeks, "wrinkled deep in time". But there is a red in her lips, a sparkle in her eyes, and her breath is as sweet as the breath...
...That Germany be permitted to arm up to as great a strength as that of any other Great Power after it has limited its armaments (proposed by Germany, Italy, Russia, with France irreconcilably hostile...
...Shanghai tragedy ended with a quick curtain which remained down for four hours. Two men tugged the curtain down, negotiated with Japanese and Chinese officers the four-hour truce. Tugger Father Jacquinot is Rector of Shanghai's St. Francis Xavier College, lost an arm at Verdun, France. Tugger Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hayley Bell, retired, is British, indomitable...
...nurse ran into the room wondering why she had not heard the children screaming and thinking it was a bomb. When she opened the door she found those eight little Roman Catholics kneeling by their bedsides praying. . . . The children invented games in which to have one leg or one arm was not a disadvantage but an advantage. . . . They called me Monsieur Auld Reekie." "If you want to start a war" advised Bishop Francis John McConnell, "mobilize the liars and get the churches to bless it." Shanghai police arrested Cinemactor Ronald Colman who was strolling the town after curfew...