Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentlemen supported the trailing bridal veil of antique Brussels lace, priceless and some 20 feet long. Instead of a wreath, Princess Isabelle wore a bridal circlet of diamonds. Carrying a missal instead of a bouquet, and leaning on the arm of her father Prince Pierre, she led the royal procession in which walked 54 princes and princesses...
...whet U. S. appetites for the statue a fore arm was sent to Philadelphia for the Centennial Exposition in 1876, transferred to Madison Square, New York, for the next ten years, was finally joined by the rest of the statue in 1886 when the whole was solemnly unveiled on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor...
Justice John A. Ford of the New York Supreme Court leaped to escape a speedy motor truck in lower Manhattan. A fellow pedestrian had an even closer call. Breathing hard, steadying himself on the Justice's arm, the stranger gasped: "If that guy had knocked me down and sent me to the hospital, what could I do about...
...newspaper and entered the tunnel, some one in the human current moved up behind him, stuck a sawed-off revolver behind his head and pulled the trigger. As the shot barked through the crowded tunnel and people screamed. Lingle pitched forward to the pavement, newspaper still clutched under his arm, cigar in teeth, instantly dead...
Faustin Wirkus, son of a Polish miner in Pennsylvania, wanted to see more of the world. He decided when he was eleven to enlist in the Marines. When he did, he was sent to Haiti. He missed the War because of a compound fracture of the arm, but had plenty of fighting against Haitian bandits, rose to be a Marine sergeant with rank of lieutenant in the native gendarmerie. A crack shot, he personally potted many a Caco (bandit), but in off hours he made friends with the peaceful natives, did many queer, unsoldierly things, such as acting as emergency...