Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...court-martialed and shot. "... I am going to close now with this appropriate quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm, it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. "Shame on those who brought this Fall and Doheny case to a miserable close; shame on those who forgot their oaths of allegiance to their country; and shame on those who have forgotten and who have betrayed their country...
During the last three weeks, neuritis attacks have crippled Leopold Stokowski and made it necessary for Assistant Arthur Rodzinski to conduct the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Last week in Carnegie Hall, he had enough of enforced idleness, made up his mind to disappoint his audience no longer. His right arm in a sling, he gritted his teeth, picked up the baton with his left, conducted the Kaminski "Concerto Grossi" single-and-left-handed. The pain was too great. He had to retire. The audience extended him an ovation. His former wife, Olga Samaroff, able music critic of the New York Evening...
...lamb! Mary had a little lamb!" Turning the shaft back, he adjusted the other tube, cranked again and the tube repeated timidly, "Mary had a little lamb." Mr. Edison and a mechanic worked all night. In the morning Mr. Edison went to New York with his contraption under his arm. He placed it on the desk of the editor of The Scientific American, adjusted it and invited the editor to crank. "Good morning," said the machine. "What do you think of the phonograph...
...policy during the mid-December session of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. There Germany will be represented and Spain will continue to hold aloof-having recently closed even her diplomatic and consular office at the League Secretariat. As M. Briand and Sir Austen went figuratively arm in arm to Geneva, last week, and as the Council assembled, it was reported to have been momentously determined that the Allied Military Commission of Control (over Germany) will soon be replaced by a supervisory League Commission, a great step in soothing German amour propre...
...would relieve the ticket scarcity situation. Only real levers of the game would take the trouble to apply for tickets to a game at sunrise. No one is sufficiently interested merely in flags and arm bands, picture hats, college yells, and brass bands, to get up at sunrise...