Word: armes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flintlocks are all highly ornamented and highly embossed. The next small arm development is shown by the percussion cap pistol used during the war of 1812. Perhaps the most interesting and ingenious gun on exhibition is the "pepper box" from which the modern revolver originated. The "pepper box" is a small weapon about six inches in length with a revolving cylinder which is divided into six parts, each of which forms a barrel. Then there are types of the revolver which were used during the Civil War and resemble the modern revolver. Finally there is a case containing modern small...
...join the other famous hoaxes of history. Her temperature, which hovered over two weeks at 114 degrees or more, and set her own and other physicians theorizing as to its mysterious cause, was really only 104. Evelyn fooled them all with a little hot water bag hidden under her arm. But Dr. Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association, Chicago, watched through a keyhole. "Hysterical malingering" is his diagnosis. The girl is still sick, and the excitement of the expose may do what a simulated fever could not. But the physiologists are vindicated! The human body still obeys its accustomed...
...himself worthy of his office, even at the expense of his nickname. He has announced his intention of stationing a policeman at the crossing to enforce the ordinance. When the police force of Pleasantville raises its hand against an Atlantic City Flyer, the results can be imagined. The "long arm of the law" has done greater things than merely holding back an express train...
Suddenly there is great activity at the United Mine Workers' Local. The miners see their strike jeopardized by the scabs, and the community terrorized by the mine guards. Fresh arrogance by the invading company detectives fans the flames to hatred. The miners begin to arm, a group of them ambush a truck full of guards coming from Carbondale and kill three. It is the overt act of class warfare...
Rheinold Mory, sculptor: " I designed a statue of a nude Venus for a public fountain in a suburb of Atlantic City, but the city council would not accept it. So I clothed her in a one-piece bathing suit and hung and draped a cape over her left arm, and the council accepted...