Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suit for $50,000 brought by a Putnam, Conn. State highway worker against young (21) Manhattan Socialite Audrey ("Giddy") Gray, niece of the Duchess of Marlborough. Last July Audrey Gray knocked his two sons off their bicycles, drove on without stopping. To Wilfred Martineau Jr., 14 (left arm amputated), went $17,500; to Gerard (fractured skull...
...Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. The farm business was bad three years ago, and the Renshaws' luck was worse. After 30 years on the farm, Mr. Renshaw was about to lose his land by foreclosure. He got cancer of the face. All his horses died. He broke his arm. His car went to pot. He had to sell his hogs for practically nothing. When the subject of patriotism came up at school, his son James, 14, said the hell with the U. S. and The Star-Spangled Banner. The loan company foreclosed, and the Renshaws had to pay rent...
...transatlantic flight ended in Flushing Bay a few minutes after the takeoff; he cracked up Haile Selassie's own plane; he never got to China because he collapsed in a hotel chair, broke his arm. Last week Colonel Julian made his altitude record: he flew to the defense of Father Divine himself...
Publisher John Macrae Sr., longtime president of E. P. Button & Co. (books), shot himself in the upper left arm and chest while hunting 'possum near Greenwich, Va., was hurried to Fauquier County* hospital for a blood transfusion...
...superior performances, is Eric Cutler, lanky 220 and 440 free-style expert who was undefeated last season in the latter event and who placed second to Ohio State's Stanhope in the N.C.A.A. 1500-meter final last spring. Rick has not been hindered at all this year by the arm injury that kept him out of competition during his Sophomore year, the result being that his prospects are good enough for a national championship in the quarter-mile to be predicted for him by some observers...