Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week, almost as bright and sunny as the June day on which President Hoover electrified the world with his Moratorium announcement, stocky, smiling, middle-aged George Boyd, Capitol messenger, strode into the White House executive offices. Under his left arm he carried a big envelope which he delivered to the Hoover secretariat. From it was extracted a large, handsomely engrossed sheet of paper entitled: ''House Joint Resolution No. 147. To Authorize the Postponement of Amounts Payable to the United States from Foreign Governments during the Fiscal Year 1932." The measure was certified by John Nance Garner...
Leaving Leavenworth, the convicts and their prisoner met four colored soldiers going out hunting. They took the car and shotguns. When this car bogged down, the convicts became frenzied. They confiscated another passing car, commandeered two young women for shields. Warden White protested. They blew his arm almost off, left him for dead. Then they split up into two groups. One group- Charles Berta, Stanley Brown, Tom Underwood-ran into the woods where they were soon captured...
...archaeological, ethnological and other zoological exhibits-when Capt. Perfilieff goes forth to lecture. He will tell how his friend and colleague Alexander Siemel got his foot bitten by a crocodile, how another member of the expedition caught the long-legged tu-u-u after winging it, carried it his arm for miles...
People who have been watching Arturo Toscanini conduct lately were not surprised when it was announced last week that he would be unable to finish his midwinter engagement with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony. Since early in the summer Toscanini has suffered excruciating pain in his right arm. Like many a conductor before him (Leopold Stokowski, Willem Mengelberg, Richard Strauss), he has a sub-deltoid bursitis or "glass arm," an affliction which orchestra leaders and schoolboys get from the same cause. Schoolboys get it from throwing pebbles or crabapples instead of baseballs, conductors from putting too much energy into their waving...
...weeks substitutes were needed. The choice of Detroit's Ossip Gabrilowitsch and of Hans Lange, the Philharmonic's assistant conductor, surprised no one. The engagement of Vladimir Golschmann for Christmas week aroused controversy, as did the Philadelphia Orchestra's engagement of Eugene Ormandy, another beneficiary of Toscanini's glass arm, now permanently established in Minneapolis (TIME...