Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposition as a sign of personal malignity towards him. He would like to rise and on the flat of his feet, waving his great windmill of an arm in a gesture to the cosmos, denounce this fellow Coolidge in a voice vibrating with the passion of his platitudes. Instead, he has kept a moody silence...
White waitresses are to replace the former negro waiters. White table cloths will be introduced again for the first time in many years. Comfortable arm chairs will replace the old stony and stiff backed chairs. And, as the greatest innovation of all, Memorial Hall will be open to women with escorts for the first time in its half century of existence...
Russian Colonel Bezobrazov said unpleasant things about the Prince of Monaco. Baron Gunsberg, former director of the Opera at Monte Carlo, heard them, challenged the Russian to combat with swords. To the sand dunes of Calais they went and fought the matter out. A sword thrust in the arm forced the Colonel to acknowledge his error...
General Dawes advanced into the glare, carrying on his arm an ancient gentleman, smoking a stogie, whom the light disclosed as Joseph G. Cannon. After a prayer had been rendered, Uncle Joe said a few mellifluous words. Former Representative Albert Jefferis, of Nebraska, then came forward to tell General Dawes that last June the Republican National Convention had nominated him for Vice President. Mr. Dawes gave his answer in his first sentence...
...takes occasion to define a medical term: "One day, after a good dinner followed by one or two of his favorite cigars, he is seized with a pain. And such a pain. It is a stabbing through the chest as by a sword-thrust. It runs down his left arm and at the same time there is a tightness round the chest walls like the constriction of an iron band. He would scream if he could, but he cannot. Will he live to draw another full breath? Cold sweat is on his forehead; every muscle of his body tense...