Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electric switch. Machinery gleams in a maddening rhythm. White-hot balls become bottles. Typewriter keys dance. Faster and faster until noon. A lull. Sausages and beer. Chicken and silver platters. An elephant yawns and wags his tail slowly. Machinery moves again. So do feet, taxicabs, street cars, the arms of traffic officers. There is a suicide at the river, a bubble in the water. Workmen wash their hands and the factory gates roll shut. Rowboats on the river, tennis, golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights and signboards glitter. At the cinema the feet of Charles...
Died. Dr. C. Edmund Kells, famed dentist, first to use X-ray in his work; by suicide; in New Orleans. Experiments with X-ray had caused an arm infection which 27 operations had not cured...
...Senator occasionally errs in the way of heroes: under estimating the power of his opponent. Swifter than he knew, the underground espionage system of Rome was at work. Yesterday morning when Senator Heflin sauntered into the President's room of the Capitol, he started back, and caught the arm of the nearest reporter. The room was draped...
...While automobiling, she skidded, broke an arm. But she had it put in splints, kept a concert engagement in London. Her name: Esther Dale, minor U. S. soprano...
Last week, at Curtiss Field, Long Island, Bonney tested his finally completed Gull. It flew. For half a mile it traveled in a burst of speed. Bonney waved his arm in triumph. And then the Gull nosed down to earth and dived straight into the ground, a mass of wreckage. Bonney landed on his head 20 feet away, with only moments left to live...