Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Mr. Van Devanter came down accompanied by his two elderly sisters, the photographers cut loose. Incensed because they had not asked his permission (which on other occasions he has frequently given) the Justice held his hat before his face, rushed one cameraman and then gripped him by the arm while delivering a lecture on the discourtesy of unannounced snapshooting. He pushed another of the photographers out the door. There was the evening when Alumnus Charles Evans Hughes, '81, attended a Brown University alumni dinner and was caught by the camera beaming happily over a plate of oysters...
...loaded with bombs. Then five months later Colonel Francis Riggs, Insular Chief of Police, was assassinated by two young Nationalists as he drove home from Sunday morning mass. The two assassins were seized by police and shot two hours later in the police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption to date...
Under the new Air Minister, aviation's fighting arm, as well as Italian commercial aviation, took giant strides. In mass formation flights, personalty led by the Air Minister, Italy began to excel more spectacularly each year. The name of Italo Balbo made headlines everywhere, and Dictator Mussolini figured it was about time to give him a taste of what he had given the three Heroes de Bernardi, Ferrarino and de Pinedo...
...advancement of the motion picture." Last week the Committee decided that in 1935-36 cinema had received a contribution outstanding "for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry- Newsreel. Its creativeness is looked upon by the Academy as a 'shot in the arm' for the whole newsreel field." At the banquet, Toastmaster George Jessel handed a Special Award Oscar to Vice President Roy Edward Larsen of TIME Inc. for THE MARCH OF TIME...
...jolly artistic atmosphere, portentous with such figures as William Morris and Robert Browning in the offing. When Kipling's family discovered what kind of treatment he had been getting at Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went up to his room to say goodnight, and "I flung up an arm to guard off the cuff I had been trained to expect"), they immediately rescued him, took him off to a country cottage. There he met his cousin, one Stanley Baldwin. At 11 Rudyard was sent to boarding school, at Westward Ho!, a new school mainly for boys from Army families...