Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Clark Younggreen of Milwaukee, at the culminating Berlin banquet of the International Advertising Association of which he is president (TIME, Aug. 26), beheld a spider crawling out from beneath his right cuff. Last week, his arm. spider-bitten, swollen, infected, required lancing, draining, dressings, rest...
...exchanged obscene impressions. Now he knew he must be very distasteful to her since, definitely a prostitute, she had turned down only himself. He climbed into her bedroom after midnight, but she was sleeping elsewhere. In the morning he found her, took her to the river bank, twisted her arm to make her admit he disgusted her. She began screaming shrilly in terror and in equal terror he began beating her over the face with a convenient club. In his flight he joyfully murdered an oldster who seemed to be watching...
...affray waded Police Captain Henry Melson, unpopular with the strikers for his "rough stuff." Up went the cry: "Get Melson!'' He was "gotten"- crushed to the floor, kicked, cuffed, pounded, pummeled. He drew his gun, fired shots along the floor, hit two legs, a toe, an arm in the crowd. Blood ran. Police sirens shrieked for reserves. Night sticks twirled, the mob swirled. It took an hour to drive the rioters out of the City Hall, down the steps. A trolley was passing on St. Charles St. The crowd jerked off its rod, stoned in its windows, punched...
Suddenly last week the U. S. threw an arm of protection about Citizen-Killer Harris, removed his case from the State to the Federal courts. Private Oklahoma citizens inquired how this could be done as Harris was no dry agent. U. S. District Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught put his fingers over his lips, whispered: "Private Government regulation...
...Aircraft Corp. sales agents. Last week at Detroit, Flyer Schlee was turning over a plane propeller by hand, to start the motor. He failed to maintain the gingerliness essential for handstarting a plane motor. His motor did not start. The propeller kicked back, struck him, tore flesh, broke an arm bone, concussed his brain. Detroit surgeons found that he had a fair chance to live...