Word: armes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee on the District of Columbia. Chunky Representative Sol Bloom of New York politely insinuated that square-jawed Representative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas was a liar. Mr. Blanton, who wants to close the cinema theatres on Sunday, leaped at Mr. Bloom, who wants them open; put his Texan arm around Mr. Bloom's neck. They grappled, heaved, fell across the committee table. One L. B. Schloss joined the fray, was knocked to the floor, kicked. The Rev. Harry L. Bowlby, secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance, was reported as having picked out the smallest...
...When the trouble began," apologized the arm of the law. "I put them in a pocket where I thought they'd be safe. It's a caution how some of these students use their boots...
...cried Lightweight Glass as he doubled up one fist, grabbed Middleweight Wheeler by the arm. A wary secretary leaped between them; Senators rushed up to pacify. Mr. Glass, shouting for battle, was thrust into the cloakroom. . . . The tumult died gradually; the Senate went back to business. Both of these thwarted fisticuffers were Democrats...
...face howled. Technically, he was no vaudeville actor; he was William Hale Thompson, candidate for Mayor of Chicago. Yelled he: "I wanta make the King of England keep his blasted snoot out of America. . . . This is the issue of the campaign [he draped the Stars and Stripes over his arm]. What was good enough for Washington is good enough for me. In the face of an issue such as this, the only issue for a true American, do you folks wanta re-elect your present Mayor.* Do yuh? Do yuh? If you don't look out all history books...
...clubbed," but said that Mr. Thaw had beaten her with a hair brush which she wrenched from him.) "THAW BITES BROADWAY GIRL" (This was a less imaginative headline. Miss Estardus did indeed allege that Mr. Thaw flung her to the floor and bit her in the arm...