Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curious physiological effects have been obtained under hypnotism. The patient, with both arms extended in front of him, has been told that the blood would leave one arm and go to the other. The operator has then massaged one arm and the blood has drained into the other arm until the arms presented a shocking contrast in red and white. Red and white they remained until the signal was given. Then the blood was seen to flow slowly back until both arms were the same color. The mechanism of this is unknown but the fact has been demonstrated repeatedly...
...Cruickshank had a 30. And when Cruickshank finished the last nine in 36 the starter himself left the blackboard and joined the people who were crowding to get a look at this sure winner while cameras clicked and Cruickshank posed with a driver on one arm and his wife on the other. Just about that time Farrell had finished the first nine. His score...
...died, willing his art treasures to the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan, on condition that it would keep them as an integral exhibit. The Metropolitan refused the treasures on these terms, but not the Corcoran Art Gallery of Washington, substitute legatee. ... Last week, with Senator Clark's widow on his arm, President Coolidge walked through the Corcoran's new Clark annex, followed by a gala procession, and looked at the pictures, tapestries, laces, rugs, faiences, sculptures, furniture and other gimcracks collected to the tune of perhaps five millions by old Bill Martin's alleged oldtime pardner, Bill Clark...
...older alumni, who deplore the passing of the men that once gave a spice of variety to Harvard life. Long years have passed since John the Orangeman and his donkey-cart trundled through Cambridge, and the original Poco visited dormitories with a load of old clothes over his arm. But the extinction of the individual does not mean the extinction of the species; and there are still a good many persons that are known to every Freshman by the end of October...
...public career of Heinrich Langkopf began in Berlin last week, when, with a stout tin box under his arm, he called at the office of Privy Councilor Hugo Bach. Arriving early, he was kept waiting until a few minutes after noon. Ushered in at last by a page who discreetly retired, he approached the desk of Privy Councilor Bach, placed the tin box upon it, and spoke crisply: "I have here 15 pounds of high explosives. Unless you are willing to give me 112,000 marks, in cash, for reasons which I shall explain, this building will be blown...