Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...help. You hear the flames roar as a window bursts. You grab the arm of the first person you meet and ask: ''Is everyone out of the house...
...abduction--object matrimony--this of Mam'selle Bonvalet. Her fiance and the General, both Legionnaires, turn out in pursuit. It is not until after a hectic harem scene and a few Sahara serenades that "The Shadow" ("Shad", for short) emerges the winner on points: the Parisenne on one arm and a reconciled father on the other...
...blue uniform, twinkling with medals, cased the little, compact royal body. The oval, shapely head bore proudly a black shako topped with aigrette plumes. The left hand rested, militantly graceful, on the jeweled hilt of a sword. The right arm snapped to a correct salute as Amir Amanullah beheld upon the platform small, slim King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, and burly but suave Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
...Arms sideways RAISE. He took each position as if to a bellowed command. Trunk forward BEND. He dipped way over the 'cellos. Sideways LUNGE. That was a pale little passage for the violins. Right arm upwards RAISE. It was for the tympanist to see him. Rotate the trunk and arms in regular count. That was for the full band. He postured this way and that, flung his body into a dozen foolish positions. For five minutes and more the audience sat in a smothered giggle. Critics were delighted to see a new conductor who would make good copy...
...best of feeling prevailed between the Mayor and the visiting President. They left the railway station arm in arm, they drove about the city in an open car to see and to be soon. For the official reception a painting of the Free State President, decorated in red, white, blue, and green, with appropriate mottoes in Gaelic and English beneath, left the right atmosphere, keeping in the foreground the bond of sympathy that exists between Chicago and Ireland. Such was the spirit of the day. President Cosgrave is quoted to the effect, that Mayor Thompson would be an effective member...