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Word: armed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beverly Hills, energetic old Cinemactress May Robson, 73, tripped over her pet dog, broke her arm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...sure in your own maturing mind who and what is good or bad. If you come with an open mind, you will accept with equanimity the eccentricities of the Harvard community. You will be prepared to sign your name in Memorial Hall on registration day until your arm is numb; you will keep solicitors at arm's length, especially those who try to sell you heat, or Anderson bridge, or a funny magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO 1942 | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...Walk. A number in a successful musicomedy, Me and My Girl, which opened last winter, the Lambeth Walk by last week was being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance-an easy, arm-in-arm walk, mock-Cockney fashion, with simple turns, knee-slappings and, at the end, a shout of "Hey!" or "Oi!" -had reached the continent, had penetrated even to Scotland. And last week, Arthur Murray, Manhattan dance teacher, returned from Europe with the Lambeth Walk at his toe-tips, vowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Murray's Steps | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...crowd went crazy. By the 13th. when he plainly got the better of Armstrong, who by this time was swinging wildly and forfeiting rounds because of low blows, the Garden was yelling for a game fighter. After the 15th round, when Referee Billy Cavanagh held up Armstrong's arm in victory (a decision boisterously booed from the gallery), Henry Armstrong was so exhausted that he probably could not have pronounced his own title: World's Featherweight -Lightweight -Welterweight Champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Triple Champion | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...peer into their pool from a steep rock bank high enough so no bear can stand on its hind legs and claw the customers. While Joseph Pacreau peered, one bear heaved itself awkwardly on to the back of another bear, got hold of Joseph Pacreau's arm, hung on till a keeper arrived and rapped it smartly on the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Californians | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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