Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt entered on his son's arm the crowded chamber rose and applauded not only the President of the U. S. but a conquering hero...
...years ago has been advising the Speakers of the House on the abstruse technicalities of House procedure-had the eyes of the House upon him one afternoon last week as he marched up to Reading Clerk Alney Chaffee. Taking a large leatherbound volume from beneath his arm, the Parliamentarian laid it on the edge of the Clerk's desk and turned away. As he did so the volume began to slip. Alney Chaffee made a lunge for it but it escaped him, with a resounding clank fell into a large brass cuspidor. The House guffawed. The first fall...
...Princess. She tripped over a cushion just as she was about to sit down in one of the two "bridal chairs" - there is no altar in a Dutch church - but Prince Bernhard kept his bride from falling, and later, when a diamond bracelet fell off her Royal Highness' arm, he smoothly restored it. The clasp of her diamond necklace held...
...advertisement showed Mr. Burton in jockey costume holding a saddle over his right arm. He said that through a freak of photography, he had been humiliated and held up to ridicule...
When he found nothing, he said: "I've put a lot of money into this house, and I want to get some of it back." Then he moved over to Charles, grabbed the frightened child under one arm, picked him up bodily. "This is better than money," he said as he backed from the room toward the French doors. When Billy and the two girls ran to the shattered doors, they saw the man fleeing across the soggy rear lawn and down the slope toward Commencement Bay, with Charles held tightly under his arm. In the litter of broken...