Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John M. Fry who directed the party which cornered John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia barn twelve days after he had shot President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, died last week in Seward, 111. Detective Ireland of the U. S. Secret Service seized Leon F. Czolgosz by the left arm immediately after he had shot President McKinley, Sept...
James Abram Garfield had been in office only four months but already he was tired. He leaned heavily on Secretary Elaine's arm as they got out of the carriage and entered the waiting room. Agent Parke started walking to meet them...
Librarians observe and report readers' tastes. Boys and girls read Lorna Doone; but the girls skip all the fighting, the boys all the lovemaking. Some enter their 'teens hand in hand with Louisa May Alcott, leave them arm in arm with G. B. Shaw. A librarian may fix his attention on special cases: prisons, for example. Girls in correctional institutions do not read so much as boys. They are "ignorant and sophisticated, pathetically childish, wary, scornful and suspicious." They should be given stories written for adults of meagre intelligence, especially those of girls who rise above unfortunate surroundings...
...taken to court, could be reduced to an absurdity, pitched into oblivion. Teacher Scopes guessed it could, too. A bargain was struck: Chemist Rappelyea would swear out a warrant against his friend for violating the anti-evolution law and thus force a test of the question. Arm in arm they left the drugstore with a plan which was, in a few weeks, to develop into one of the most amazing trials in U. S. history (TIME...
...test case the wedding was a success. There was no riot. Said the bride, leaning on Moses Cohen's arm, "We are both descendants of Jewish families who were expelled from Spain in the time of Queen Isabella...