Word: armful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter I recognize my father as the gentleman at the extreme right of the picture with his arm across the young lady's shoulder...
...nine in the sixth round. In the ninth, Belgian Referee Valoni allowed Hamas to be battered about for one minute more, then mercifully sent Schmeling to his corner. With the Nazi crowd of 25,000, Joe Jacobs, Schmeling's Jewish manager, expressed his joy with a right-arm salute...
...trying to embrace me twenty feet below the surface. I didn't have anything to do with it, honest. I was groping about the bottom once when, interrupted by a tap on my shoulder. I turned about prepared to grasp a playful fellow-diver--and clasped a slimy, clammy arm--the sodden corpse of a dead woman...
...trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down and she suspects him of cowardice in not rescuing her father. Hurt, Benjie marries a barmaid. Dismayed, Vanessa marries the introvert. Not until Benjie has lost an arm, Vanessa's husband has died from the shock of seeing a Christmas present, and an old friend of the family (Henry Stephenson) has predicted that there is no way out, do Benjie and Vanessa reach first base...
...tough proposition, but to Soapy it looked like his big chance. With his time-tested crew of bunco-steerers, con men and cappers he started a saloon in Skagway, set out to captivate that leaderless town. He did it, but it was hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order element grew restive. Finally, when a green prospector was robbed in Soapy's own saloon, the storm gathered. A meeting of sober citizens was called. When Soapy, singlehanded, went down to remonstrate with them...