Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pill" has been so effectively coated that, in its current issue, Physical Culture bears a striking physical resemblance to Red Book and to Hearst's Cosmopolitan. At arm's length the cover design looks, even to Artist Bradshaw Crandell's signature, exactly like the work of Red Book's Artist McClelland Barclay. The contents include the final instalment of Warwick Deeping's serial The Ten Commandments; articles by Will Durant and the Grand Duchess Marie; stories by Grace Perkins (Night Nurse), Harold Bell Wright...
...Bank of U. S. failed. In July Banker Gibson began a series of mergers and liquidations by Manufacturers. Two banks it took to itself by mergers (Midwood Trust of Brooklyn and Brooklyn National Bank of New York). Three (Midtown Bank, Lebanon National Bank, Bryant Park Bank) it held at arm's length "solely as liquidating agent," the same basis as that on which the seven other banks were taken over by the Gibson-headed group last week...
...over a burglary. On the way back their car is followed by another. Partly to throw their pursuers off the track, partly to get rid of Biberkopf, Reinhold slugs him, heaves him into the street. The car runs over him, does not kill him; but he loses his right arm. Old friends rescue him, take him to a hospital, stand by till he is on his feet again. The old friends are naturally crooks but they are loyal, sympathize with his plight, respect his determination. They get him another girl, little Mieze, fresh from the streets. Biberkopf becomes her pimp...
...first suspicious because Biberkopf apparently bears him no grudge for the loss of his arm, then contemptuous, Reinhold meets Mieze, plans to take her away from Biberkopf to complete his humiliation. When Mieze will have none of him, Reinhold murders her. Biberkopf is suspected of the murder; he hides, disguises himself, but the police catch him. Bewilderment at his bad luck has addled his wits; he is taken, not to jail this time, but to an asylum. There Death throws him but cannot quite keep him down. When Franz Biberkopf emerges from the shadow of death, and the threat...
...began to encounter difficulties. The old man in her pilot boat misdirected her. A wind came up and blew her eight miles off her course. Her goggles began to leak, water to blind her. After the first eight hours, she suffered from acute nausea and pains in her arm. Twice she fainted but, on recovering, prayed that the torture of cold might not be added to her obstacles. She was further encouraged by the yells of her 15-year-old son Everett who accompanied her in a row- boat. Finally, 23 hours after she had entered the water at Glenbrook...