Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, Signor Pirandello announced that to divert his guests he would direct a scene from a motion picture now in production, a duel scene. While two cameras ground, and unwitting female guests idly twirled parasols, Massimo Bontempelli "laid on" with Giuseppe Ungaretti, pinked him at last in the right arm, walked victorious from the undeadly field of honor...
...continued to pace up and down the room like a caged lion. I knew it would be useless to talk to him. So I just went over to his side and walked up and down with him. Gradually he slackened his pace a little, and then I touched his arm. " 'Don't you think you might rest now, Mr. Roosevelt?' I suggested. "He paused a moment as if in thought. When Mr. Roosevelt was not excited or aroused or happy he was just quiet. He was not a man to look either tired or sad. That...
...intersection. In 18.5% of cases, he will have been crossing the street properly at an intersection; in only 17.3% of cases will he have been "jay-walking"; in only 1.9% will he have been drunk. The chances are 27% that you were driving properly; 39% that you were inattentive (arm around girl, gaping at other car, reading street name, etc.); only 4% that you were speeding; only 4.7% that you skidded. Of New York's 47,128 accidents in 1925, only 148 occurred at railroad crossings. Pedestrians figured in 30,811 cases; 58,444 vehicles were involved. Pleasure cars...
...Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, came up for the weekend. He outlined the tentative program of the Navy Department for the expansion of its air arm under the recently authorized five-year program. Undeterred by bogey-visions of the Shenandoah, the Roma, and other lighter-than-air disasters, Mr. Wilbur requested the President's approval for an airship "three times the size of the Shenandoah...
...What we gwine to play, Monk?" he said to his brother. The passing of the thing in the glass carriage had left him with a sense of liberty that made him swing his arm and adorn his preliminary question with rhetoric. "Whata we-all gwina play, Monke-ee-Monk-eee-Monk...