Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost everyone knows the story of this most versatile of our countrymen. How he carried bread under his arm in Philadelphia; how his future wife laughed at him for loafing up the street. How he lit up the city with street lamps; the improvements he made in the roads. The city's first fire department; how he founded the circulating library, a new kind of stove, and the American Philosophical Society. His missions to England were exceedingly fruitful; his mistress in France one of the most beautiful women of the era; his gout and his gall stones and a fall...
...prove manipulation, even if it exists, is often a tough task. So instead of cracking down with a ponderous investigation that might have sent the whole market into a decline, the SEC office in Manhattan chose a smarter method of warning against strong-arm tactics. It issued a denial of anything more than a routine interest in the Chrysler rise. But by mentioning by name,, and only mentioning, the firm with which most Chrysler market moves are associated, SEC made its point perfectly, thus...
...included. The editors, both of the prose volume and its poetry companion, have done their work with great skill. Splendidly printed and bound in the Oxford blue and gold, the collections are not only eminently useful from a scholarly standpoint but valuable in their well-presented opportunities for arm-chair enjoyment...
Once again, Mr. Strachey here posits the classic thesis of the inevitability of the class struggle. Scanning the political horizon he sees only the lifted arm of Mussolini and the lifted eyebrows of Andy Mellon. He refuses absolutely to admit that our capitalist system is capable of amelioration through peaceful self-regulation...
Died. Dr. Alberto Rinaldi, good friend and physician to Conductor Arturo Toscanini, whom he successfully treated for bursitis ("conductor's arm"); apparently by being clubbed to death; in small Piazze, Italy. Worshipped and called "miracle man" by villagers, Dr. Rinaldi treated such ailments as arthritis by a secret method involving injections from mysterious phials. He visited patients at night clad in ghostly white vestments. The secret of his treatment he took to his grave. Upon Dr. Rinaldi's unexplained death, Toscanini, who had annually obtained relief from him, hastened to Piazze for the funeral...