Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Olathe, Kan., Probate Judge George W. Fulmer, a 60-year-old official with one arm, married Elizabeth Conn, the 16-year-old daughter of an iceman, to one William Washburn, 21. This done, E. A. Conn, local iceman and father to Elizabeth, swirled into Probate Fulmer's office and beat the smiling, crippled, bewildered old fellow within an inch of his life...
...country. A car came up toward Percy Hammond at a great rate of speed, hit his auto and turned it over, causing bruises to Mrs. Hammond and more serious injuries to her husband, so that it would be necessary for him to carry his write arm in a sling. The driver of the car was an obscure character called William G. Dowrie...
...policeman, thinking he spied the assassin, whipped out his revolver and began to shoot at the scurrying cub. Someone knocked up the policeman's arm, thus saving to posterity a famed storyteller. Cub Cobb's name was Irvin S. Cobb, who lived to write Speaking of Operations, A Laugh a Day, Here Comes the Bride, etc., etc., and to reminisce last week about the Goebel murder, perhaps as famed a murder as there is in all hard-shooting Kentucky's history...
...Married. Lillian Leitzel, strong arm "flying-trapeze queen" of Ringling's Circus ; to Alfredo Cordona, gymnast; in Chicago. "We're going to entertain circus crowds as long as we live," they said...
Sixteen years ago Ellen Terry saw a farmhouse in Kent and asked her daughter to buy it for her. Since then she had lived there, coming to London for first nights. Two years ago she broke her arm and stopped coming up to London...