Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation disclosed that Merchant Rosenthal had bought his soda by the barrel from one Nick Manno, who had salvaged it from broken Arm & Hammer brand packages. In two weeks bargain-hunting housewives had snapped up 800 lb. Examination showed no traces of poison in other broken Arm & Hammer packages, thus indicating that Rosenthal's soda had been contaminated during or since salvage. A chemist reported that it could hardly have been an accident, because the poisons and soda were too thoroughly mixed...
William B. Shalleck '39 is recovering as rapidly as can be expected after his fall in the ventilator shaft in Matthews, in which he suffered a compound fracture of his right arm, a dislocated shoulder, and a severe concussion which left him unconscious for five days, and delirious for two weeks more. He is under the care of the brain specialist, Dr. Munroe, at the Boston City Hospital, where he was taken on October 27, at the time of the accident...
Although his arm is in an "aeroplane splint," which holds it at an angle over his head, and allows no movement of his shoulder or right side, and despite the prospect of from four to six weeks more flat on his back, he is in good spirits, and was able to see a funny side to his accident...
...time or another. Air Marshal Italo Balbo, once rumored "banished'' to the post of Governor of Libya by the "jealous" Dictator, has been in Rome repeatedly since the outset of the war and on warplane shopping trips to France to strengthen Italy's air arm. As sanctions applied by the League of Nations (with Britain applying the spurs and France tugging on the check rein) came into effect this week, Italy was so far from irresolute or bluffing that the greatest of her surviving World War commanders. Field Marshal Pietro Badoglio, was being sent to Africa...
...time-clock on the Stadium scoreboard was doing some funny things in the last period of Saturday's game. For a while the hand seemed to be stuck, and when we later glanced that way it had moved backwards. Finally we saw an arm rise above the blur of humanity underneath the scoreboard and set back the clock's hand several minutes...