Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a firearm. You will be wounded in the left arm, under mysterious circumstances, during a journey. Take the greatest precautions...
...condemned to this servitude for years on end, a British tar's lot was not a happy one. "To be flogged was to be tortured. The first stroke laid on by a brawny boatswain's mate, as hard as he could at the full length of his arm, would always jerk an involuntary 'Ugh!' out of even the most hardened unfortunate 'seized up to' the grating at the gangway; six blows tore the flesh horribly, while after a dozen the back looked like 'so much putrefied liver.' After a time the bones...
Leaving the White House four days before his 78th birthday, Virginia's Senator Carter Glass spied slim, boyish-looking Associated Pressman Francis Marion Stephenson reaching toward a snowpile. As quick of arm as of wit, Senator Glass picked a chunk of icy snow off the running board of his car, heaved it accurately at "Little Stevie," jumped in the car. Chortled he: "I landed a good...
...felt curiously responsible, as though I were traveling with bullion." In Paris something happened that decided her heart: every morning Bennett would call for her, bearing a bunch of white flowers which he had bought at a stall on the corner. "He carried these flowers tightly, holding his arm rather high up and rather rigidly. His gesture reminded me of the King of Hearts in a pack of cards." What touched Dorothy Cheston's heart was that he was being daily cheated: the flowers were never quite fresh...
...legs and back sides. Next day the crowd watched a greater number of even more spectacular spills. Six riders withdrew from fatigue. By the third night wild jams, blown tires and careless pickups had accounted for 17 spills, numerous cuts, twisted ankles, bruised legs. Not a spoke through the arm but an ordinary stomachache forced Debaets out next day. Pleading the same ailment, popular Italian Franco Georgetti, reputedly the highest-paid performer in the game, withdrew. The triple smash of Dempsey, Kilian and Rodman was a nerve-tingler, but the fifth night brought a prize misadventure. Gottfried Hurtgen...