Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this had taken only 19 minutes, and as large and imposing Mr. Birkett, K.C. walked out of court with petite Mrs. Simpson on his arm, Ipswich police slammed and locked the doors after them, holding everyone else in court for five minutes to prevent the King's lady from being followed. Shut out were participants in the next case, but Mr. Justice Hawke let the police have their way, accepting the explanation of a counsel, "There is some trouble, My Lord...
...Business was in panic. The tycoons of the Empire do not want, just now, the crushing additional tax burden of another Japanese war. Their export business, stimulated when Japan took her yen off gold (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) begun to find the effects of that shot in the arm wearing off. Several European countries have recently given themselves such shots in competition. Last week Czechoslovak firms, their currency freshly devalued, were reported to have got several big orders away from the Japanese...
...down in the jubilant Democratic headquarters in Manhattan Franklin Roosevelt's political right arm, Jim Farley, was having the greatest triumph of his career, not over the Republicans but over his own staff. In a pool on Roosevelt's electoral vote he had bet on 523, 20 votes more than the next biggest optimist, and so doing...
...operator intoned. "Ooh-aah-ooh-aah." making "magnetic passes" from Peter's head down to his middle, while an attendant held the creature. Peter smirked a little at first as if he were invulnerable, but presently his eyelids drooped and he slowly collapsed in a trance, with one arm outstretched like a dozing farmhand's and one foot comfortably resting on the opposite thigh (see cuts). In this "torpid condition" he remained for seven minutes-a spectacle at which Biologist Huxley goggled in utter astonishment. Dr. Thoma had no way of ascertaining what was going on in Peter...
...lover since his tenth year, Albert Simmons at 44 has perfected a technique of photographing game birds in flight, especially ducks and geese, which is better than most men's technique with a gun. He uses a telephoto lens with a sight such that he can "shoot" at arm's length, as with a fowling piece. He has the eye of a killer to focus and centre his pictures perfectly. Printed. on soft paper his exposures lose some definition, but any experienced gunner will recognize Photographer Simmons' teal, duck and goose action close-ups as the result...