Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First aid was administered to him at a nearby hut. His left arm and shoulder were strapped and bound to prevent straining the fracture. Solicitous hands bundled him into a heavy overcoat, buttoned it tightly across his chest, turned up the fur collar about his ears. His chauffeur drove him carefully to Market Harborough station. There he picked up the public telephone instrument with his free hand and called his secretary at York House, London: "I'll be back to dinner, and you'll see that there's very little the matter with...
President Loebe of the Reichstag seized the heavy bell with which it is given him to attempt to maintain order and during most of the week rang it until his arm ached...
...Pianist Stock, anxious to save trouble for the blue-jowled and beetling driver, reached forward to close the door. The driver did not turn round. He knew by instinct that his door was open. It always opened when he turned a corner. Without a glance, he flung back his arm, caught the door, and savagely slammed it shut on the little finger of Pianist Stock's right hand. . . . The finger had to be amputated. Last week the victim sued the Yellow Taxicab corporation for $100,000, stating that with seven fingers and two thumbs he is no longer able...
...CRIMSON reporter in state. As a result of a slight cold she caught yesterday morning when arriving in Boston she was confined to her bed by doctor's orders and was surrounded by a mountainous mass of blankets, counterpanes and pillows. A little pomeranian was playing just out of arm's reach with the paper wrapping around a huge box of candy which had evidently been sent by an admirer. At Miss Van Gordon's request the reporter placed the dog on the floor and then asked whether the star liked to play in Wagnerian roles...
...might have been there to see! Weird, mystic shapes, tremulous, vibrant, sonorous, which "strode" with intangible form down the dim cathedral aisles. Why, friends, I am 77 years old and I haven't had such a thrill (literary thrill) since, at the age of ten, I read about "an arm clothed in samite?mystic, wonderful!" Joking aside, please do not let carping critics persuade you to change or abandon your charming diction. Why not clothe commonplace details with beautiful language? Keep up the good work, and if there are any more organ tones which darkly stride, strode, stridden or have...