Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoe was hastily withdrawn from the articulate board; a girl crouched against the balusters listening. The noise had been her own fault, but she was too bundled up to move altogether without clumsiness; she had on two dresses, one under the other; there was a package under her arm. No echo answered her mistep. She could smell the chlorides from the bathroom under the staircase; she could hear far away, the day's first milk-train chuff and clank on its siding. Stealthily, with infinite precaution, she put out her foot and took another step...
...YOUNG MEN?F. Scott Fitzgerald?Scribner's ($2). The preciosity that glittered in the work of young Mr. Fitzgerald when he used to write exclusively about petting and orange-juice, has acquired a deepening stain of understanding. Princeton's Pierrot, aging, holds Columbine at arm's length and weeps for the world. Sometimes Columbine is not even present...
...Premier replied: "From France's rights, nothing has been taken by the compact. We can arm as much as we like without let or hindrance from the Locarno treaty...
...exhausted catnapper was M. Aristide Briand?for the eighth time an ex-Premier of France. When Sir Austen's train actually drew in, the indomitable Aristide was on the platform, ready to slip an arm into that of his British friend. Later they left for Geneva together by the same train. M. Briand made it clear, however, that he would not attend the formal League session but merely the far more important preliminaries...
...followers lamented one of the most unpugilistic championship bouts ever held. Greb, reported to be "sodded with night life," had hedged and hesitated, held, butted, thumbed Tiger's eyeballs. Greb had won most of the 15 rounds, many said, but lost his title for muckery. Tiger, though his right arm was a flash of black lightning, had not fought with the fury that might have been expected from the first world's champion Negro welterweight in history...