Word: armful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wright-Dobie School for girls goes little Mary Tilford (Florence McGee), granddaughter of the young institution's chief patroness. As poisonous a moppet as ever twisted a playmate's arm, Mary is a prodigal liar, an incorrigible marplot, the school's petted problem child. Punishment for her misdeeds arouses in her a persecution complex and a thirst to revenge herself on the Misses Wright & Dobie. Armed with information clandestinely gathered from Mlle de Maupin, Mary convinces her righteous grandmother that Miss Dobie is in love with Miss Wright, that she has witnessed grave misbehavior. The grandmother ruins...
...mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered to see an arm left oozing on the stage after the whole boy had reappeared. Magician Heger announced that he would not go to London...
Throughout the afternoon both Moseley and Adzigian, Harvard's main offensive hopes, were going well and both seemed in top physical condition. They teamed up with Little Bill Parquette in the pass department as Casey tried to develop this hitherto not too over powerful arm of the Crimson attack...
Wittgenstein was once a prize pupil of the Master Leschitizky who taught Paderewski. In those days he had two hands. Year after his Viennese debut came the War. Like any loyal 25-year-old Austrian, he went off to fight. On the way to the Russian frontier his right arm was wounded. He lost consciousness, woke up to find himself in a Russian prison camp. He was shunted about behind the lines, spent six months in Siberia before his group was exchanged for Russian prisoners in Austria...
...harder to explain, for Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx both hit homers, and Earl Averill hit two, polishing off the game 5-to-11. With exquisite sportsmanship, Japanese baseball scribes then wrote that of course all the handshaking Japanese had inflicted on Mr. Ruth must have tired his arm. Said Manager Connie Mack, with feeling: "I wish Judge Landis could see how the great Japanese crowds are handled, how well behaved they are and how efficiently they conduct ball games here...