Word: armes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needed. And Potter is just that type of back. He took up football last fall for exercise and soon rose to a first team position by the brilliance of his play. He is particularly effective in backing up the line and carries among his offensive weapons a good passing arm and ability as a place kicker...
...Year is no different. The average undergraduate weighs himself in the balance of his self-esteem and finds himself wanting something. So he takes his pennies of ability, judgment, and loyalty and goes into the market place to buy. There are merchants here; hawkers, who pluck him by the arm and bawl into his ears; others who are quietly content, confident that the attractiveness of their wares will sell them to all who see and are worthy of ownership...
...life is often brightened by the gorgeous retorts of the heathen. For example, this is the answer one Hooverizer got when he approached an insurgent South Dakota editor: "I am for Hoover just about as far as you can throw our party elephant by the pin feathers with your arm broken in four places...
Came a bright September evening and the Warrior sprang from the defense into militant campaigning. In a new brown derby, with Mrs. Smith on his arm, he boarded an elaborate eleven-car special train at Albany. As it sped westward, a big red bull's-eye sign on the back platform announced: "Smith-Robinson Special−the Victory Ticket...
There were deep lines in his face, and because of neuritis he carried his left arm in a sling. He was accompanied by his wife, who is one of Europe's most charming diplomatic hostesses, his daughter Diane, and his younger son, Lawrence...