Word: armful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escort took him around to the plaza in front of the Capitol. The crowd got a good look as. with more smiles and hat-waving, he trotted up the long steps. Once inside, he was led to a washroom. As he emerged, there appeared at another door, on the arm of his son John, the man he had come to see. With warm smile and outstretched hand, he advanced...
...Drawn by the crash, a number of Navajos ran up, edged uneasily about, not daring to approach the crumpled wreck-for superstitious reasons. After four hours one of them went for white rescuers. They found Maxine Howard with both legs broken, her husband with fractures of both legs, an arm and a brain concussion. Hospitalized, she soon gained strength while he lay close to death, deliriously babbling: "How is my plane...
...continue to obtain raw materials, pay wages and effect profitable sales after the Spanish civil war is over. For the time being, every Barcelona factory capable of being converted to make war materials was running full blast, the Madrid Cabinet buying hand-over-fist everything it could get to arm its militia, paying with gold from the vaults of the Bank of Spain and with crisp new pesetas from its printing presses. Barcelona landlords found their tenants enthusiastically agreed that all rents had been reduced 50%. Small factories and little shops remained under direction of their owners as their workers...
Wrote the New York World-Telegram's Sportswriter Walker Stewart, on hand to interview Fisticutter Max Schmeling: "There was a little man with starved cheeks who was being booted down the deck. . . . Four sailors were driving the little man. . . . One of them had twisted his left arm until it cracked in the socket...
Breaking her collarbone when her mount fell at a Long Island horse show, Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim, able horsewoman, was rushed to a hospital. Hour later she was back again with her arm in a steel splint, remarked: "It would be silly to miss the rest of the show...