Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owing to a burn on his arm which the Bishop received recently, he is still carrying the injured member in a sling and will be unable to engage in the golf and tennis matches which he had anticipated...
...burns to see the old Waldorf chairs no longer in their wonted place. For many years the Waldorf was to be seen crowded nightly, now what? An occasional scattered group, stragglers, never the old solid masses that indicated the comfort and conviviality to be found there when the side arm chairs invited sprawling ease and lured by comfort the student from his studies...
Despite the fact that V. P. I. succeeded in warding off Dartmouth scores by the air route, Yale must be on her guard Saturday against the ubiquitous pass. So long as Dooley, the doughty Green quarterback is in the game with his strong arm and unerring aim, just so long must an opposing team expect a possible touchdown from...
...them. Straight as a bullet he launched his enormous bulk forward in a flying tackle that had in it all that nerve and muscle remembered of wild times on ringing fields. The gunman, still firing, crumpled backward; powder burned the sleeve of "Big Bill" Edwards; a bullet seared his arm. For a while after that he was cheered wherever he went. And even now, at a football game, in the theatre, on the street, one man will nudge another...
...General Jesus Lopez des-patched two soldiers in civilian dress to parley with the bandits and assure them that so large a ransom could not be raised for another 24 hours. The soldiers rode out, one carrying over his arm a brakeman's lantern. Though they proceeded to the spot designated for payment of the ransom they saw no bandits...