Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dance march daily to Cullom, while the "walri" who cannot swim go to the gymnasium pool for hardboiled instruction. When a cadet has qualified in swimming he has the privilege of canoeing on the Hudson or swimming in Delafield Pond, a beautiful little artificial pool nestling in an arm of the rolling hills above the Plain. It the cadet is lazy he may take a red comforter, compose himself in the shade of Ft. Clinton parapet, and sleep the afternoon away...
...President's thesis: "We have had a severe shock. . . . This depression is worldwide. . . . We can make a very large degree of recovery independently of what may happen elsewhere. . . . We shall need mainly to depend upon our own strong arm for recovery as other nations are in greater difficulty than we are. . . .* We must assure a higher degree of business stability . . . any recession in American business is but a temporary halt in the prosperity of a great people...
...been robbed. Dancer Robinson gave chase to the fleeing thief, fired into the air with a small gold-plated revolver (gift of New York's police department). A policeman heard the report, did not see the thief, did see Robinson running, fired at and wounded him in the arm. The thief escaped. At the hospital Robinson complimented the policeman on his alertness...
William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, leaving a reception given him at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, had his arm caught in the open door of a passing automobile, received a bloody wound. "It won't bother me. It's nothing at all," said he. But friends took him to have the wound sewed...
...Rosie had run away. Said Ashenden, "I wonder what it was you saw in him." The picture "showed him in a long frock coat, tightly buttoned, and a tall silk hat cocked rakishly on one side of his head; there was a large rose in his buttonhole; under one arm he carried a silver-headed cane and smoke curled from a big cigar that he held in his right hand. He had a heavy mustache, waxed at the ends, and a saucy look in his eye, and in his bearing an arrogant swagger. In his tie was a horseshoe...