Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never feared the face of any man.'" Some Brisbanalities: "The best cart horse in the world can't beat the worst race horse." "There is more in any woman than any man can learn in 50 lifetimes." "A sneeze not nearly violent enough to dislocate an arm will always kill many millions of germs...
...Murchison's stout British heart suffered any anxiety that Franklin Roosevelt might greet him with the same sort of bunny hug lately practiced on President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay (see cut) and other non-British notables, his fears were quickly dissipated. The President shook hands at arm's length, charmed Sir Murchison with nothing more embarrassing than a smile...
...Beaverbrook's Daily Express, carried a leering rumor from The Hague that in the Royal Gardens "someone did catch a glimpse" of the Crown Princess and her fiance, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante}, "just at a moment when the Prince put his arm around the Princess's neck and kissed her." The "someone" who observed the engaged couple may have been Queen Wilhelmina herself or any other Dutch chaperon for all the Daily Express appeared to know, but Lord Beaverbrook's paper carried the story under this seven-word head : "DUTCH...
Always the self-dramatizer, Wagner lifts his arm and thunders: "Let this be your epitaph - 'I struck down the mightiest talent that God ever created for the enrichment of music!'" Grandiosely he flings away the envelope containing a loan of money from her husband, but, a moment before his carriage rolls away, sends a servant back to retrieve...
...would die if he did not get a drink of water immediately. The car was stopped. He ran to a drinking fountain in the square, walked around it several times, stopped and stared. The paternal cop who had been observing the group for some time took him by the arm and led him slowly back to the car. "That ain't no drinking fountain, son" he said quietly. "That's a statue of Timothy Dwight...