Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to be one. Ask Magnus Johnson. He found himself at a big dinner in Washington the other night. Everybody was there. Near him sat Mr. Hoover, who isn't exactly a 'dirt farmer' radical, but spent a good deal of the evening with his arm around Magnus Johnson's shoulder. When Hoover removed that arm, it was to give President Coolidge a chance to put his arm there instead. . . . President Coolidge made a nice speech and talked more about Magnus Johnson than anything or anyone else. He even told a story that apparently has only...
...early War work was hampered by infection and lack of equipment. In plastic surgery flaps of skin and tissue are frequently moved from one part of the body to take the place of a defect in another. For instance, a strip of flesh will be dissected from the upper arm, leaving one end attached, and the free end grafted in place on the face, maintaining continuous blood supply. After the upper end is healed, and circulation established, the lower end may be cut away, and the flap turned as needed to fill in the defect. New blood vessels grow into...
...Toulon in the south of France a diver, who was working on the submerged wreck of the cruiser Liberté, was attacked by a huge octopus. The account reads: "The diver, Jean Negri, fought desperately with the monster under water for some time. He was finally able to free one arm and plunge his trident into its body. The octopus held fast. Negri gave the signal to be hauled up. When his companions saw the writhing monster emerge they were panic-stricken, but the plight of their comrade appeared so serious that they went to his aid and cut the brute...
...published by Houghton Mifflin Company, the forgery of autobiography is not so common a pursuit for the indigent and unscrupulous intelligensia as it was forty years ago. In those days such incidents as the following were not uncommon. "A workingman came into my shop with a book under his arm:--Hone's Everyday Book, 1839, with a good many MS. marginal notes signed or initialled "Charles Lamb." He said...
...child was then passed to Bukharin, the so-called Archbishop of Communism. He took her tenderly but awkwardly. The mother made an instinctive step forward but her husband put out his arm to restrain her. This broke the tension and caused many a ripple of girlish giggles from the audience...