Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt (who had driven down the day before in her car) beamed at them, thanked them and went indoors. "We want Roosevelt," chanted the crowd. After a time Mrs. Roosevelt and Marvin Mclntyre came out, beamed some more, waved, retired. After a time Franklin Roosevelt came out on the arm of his son James, walked from side to side of the portico answering greetings. He had to make a second and a third appearance before the crowd would go away...
...Santiago Iglesias, the Samuel Gompers of his island, had been re-elected Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner in Washington over Dr. José Lopez Antongiorgi, onetime Manhattan physician whose Liberal Party wants independence from the U. S. When Commissioner Iglesias, who miraculously escaped with a bullet-furrowed right arm when an assassin fired five shots at him last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 9), was notified of the result, he was the first to praise Puerto Rico's new cheatproof election system, inspired by Maryland's Senator Tydings...
...King Edward's Coronation next May Sir Bindon Blood in his new role will be within not many arm's lengths of the famed Crown Jewels which his ancestor Colonel Thomas Blood, son of a well-to-do Irish blacksmith, succeeded in stealing from the Tower of London in 1671. With the help of two accomplices Colonel Blood overpowered the Keeper of the Regalia, hid the crown under his cloak. One of his friends seized the sceptre while the other stuffed the orb into his breeches. Before they had gone far the thieves were captured. Blood refused...
...Spasm under breastbone. Pain in left arm...
...Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Searchlights on top of nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph of the late Harry Houdini. This...