Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Cecil Leitch, three times woman golf champion of Great Britain: "I may never play golf again. It appears that my arm has been permanently disabled by an injury received two years ago in America...
Contents of a crocodile's stomach (research conducted by the Royal Zoological Society of London) : Eleven brass arm rings, three coiled wire armlets, one glass bead necklace, 14 arm and leg bones (not all human), three spinal columns, one length bark cord (used by colored porters to carry bundles), 18 stones of assorted sizes, several porcupine quills. (The crocodile lived in Tanganyika Territory, British East Africa...
...always easy to pick flaws in a play of this description and Dodson Mitchell's melodrama is no exception. Here things work out a bit too easily and the "long arm of coincidence" is surprisingly helpful. But in order to combat this, the author has busied himself more with the earlier denouements and complications, and allowed the audience to guess the final outcome. For example, before the play was half over, it was not a difficult matter to determine which half of the dual-role would win the hero, but it was not easy to accept all of the various...
There is a clamor in these times among the newspapers and the vulgus for the business men in government offices rather than the old-time politicians. The business men are answering the call and carrying in with them under their arm business methods and business maxims. Among the revolutionary theories propounded is that of Mr. Davis, Secretary of Labor,--that it will pay to advertise politics as well as patent medicine...
...volunteered to ride through the lines and carry the bad news to Moab. Immediately the street began to fill with prairie-schooners, and stern-faced men whose eyes were full of the loneliness of the plains. Each man had a square gray beard, and an old musket under an arm which was wiry and tanned by years of sun and rain. Wagon-drivers practiced frantically with their twenty-foot whips to the detriment of the shop windows and passing pedestrians. The town took on a sombre aspect. No one knew what the future held for this quiet, determined band...