Word: armful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four Falls, N.B., when his car ran off the road, crashed through three posts and plunged down an embankment, Fred Murray escaped injury; when he went to telephone for help, he fell into a newly dug cellar and broke his arm...
...calls Gable "Clarkie.") Once he proudly noted in his column that his seven-year-old daughter has a standard answer to kids who ask what her father does: "He writes the best damn column in town, and if I don't say so, they twist my arm...
...early '30s, when the artist was painting murals in Dartmouth College's Baker Library, one arm was lacking. Has a miracle occurred...
Trying to regain the Gold Cup he won in 1946, Bandleader-Motorboater Guy Lombardo wound up in the choppy Detroit River just after the start of the first heat. He swung sharply to avoid a rival, flipped over, sailed 15 feet through the air, escaped with a broken arm and bruises. His $100,000 speedboat, Tempo VI, was almost a total loss; experts thought they might be able to salvage the engine...
...Rome a fortnight ago, two music critics fought a duel over their critical opinions, left the field of honor only after one was pinked in the arm. Last week, a soprano at Milan's famed La Scala bopped a critic for having written that she was "suffering from a slight vocal eclipse" in a performance of Aïda. Next day, the Milan Journalists Association condemned opera singers who assault music critics, praised the "chivalrous" music critic for not hitting back...