Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twitching impatiently at a laurel twig, the Premier suffered himself to be congratulated for a few moments. Then the twig snapped; Il Ditce's eyes became luminous in their pale sockets. Striding to the rostrum amid ringing cheers, Mussolini performed the Fascist salute, extending his right arm forward and upward in the gesture of the Caesars...
...hallways, rushed in to find a quivering taxi-driver being beaten by three bandits. Moved by the wretch's groans, she fell upon his attackers from behind. They fled to the empty cab but Bessie Ellinger leaped on the running board. Holding on with her arm through the window of the cab door while the knaves pounded her hand and twisted her fingers to make her let go, she drew a police whistle from her apron pocket and blew it until policemen stopped the careering vehicle, arrested the caitiff flim-flammers...
...naval architects reflected that the "M" or "Monitor" class of submarine had been developed by the British Admiralty during the War, and constituted a class of "super mystery ships" which were never employed against the Germans for fear of rousing them to construct a similar and equally deadly naval arm...
...Block that kick! Block that kick ! "The Yale cheering section repeated the phrase monotonously in the belief that it would annoy Slagle (Princeton) who was about to punt. Evidently it did, for Slagle, instead of kicking, started for the Yale right end with the ball under his arm. A few moments later he was 82 yards farther down the field, which was as far as he needed to go. In the next period, when Princeton was in danger, Dignan punted 71 yards. These two fabulous feats, plus the work of a line that never wavered, made it possible...
Today as the crowds shuffle laboriously across the Anderson bridge, the phantom forms of John Harvard and Eli Yale stalk through their midst, arm in arm, returning to Cambridge after many historic conflicts on the football field. They have met many times before, and in many different situations: in Hamilton Park, New Haven, for the first time, on neutral ground at Spring-field, in Boston baseball parks, in New York, and for years now, alternately in the Bowl and the Stadium. Theirs is the longest football tradition in the country. Between them, they have fathered that ungainly child, the modern...