Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Hagen, famed professional golfer: "In a signed article by me in a Manhattan newspaper, I told how at 18 I was offered a place in the Philadelphia National League Baseball Club because I could confuse batters by pitching with either arm. Said I: 'Some men are born with a feel for the out-of-doors in their blood...
...mastering this style; but it has made the task of training a college team to speak simply and directly vastly more difficult. It is recorded that one of the recent coaches of University debaters made persistently eloquent candidates speak in trial debates with a waste paper basket under each arm. Less humiliating was the requirement of having members of the team speak while seated...
Mahammad Djemal Bey, Albanian, medical student, studying in Berlin, stabbed his former fiancee in the arm because she had jilted him. For that he was arrested. At his trial he said: "The law of my country says that disgrace can be atoned for only by a drop of blood. It is not right to humiliate me by ignoring me. I had the right to take her blood in retaliation for the wrong she had done...
...pierced through the eye by the point of a foil, and although the sight was not impaired, his entire left side was paralyzed. Leaving college for the year, he placed himself in charge of Mr. Neudorf when he returned the following September, and finally succeeded in having his arm and leg function, although he walked with a very slight limp...
...fearful cafeteria. Granting that this soul-killing institution does devastate many a good, home-bred stomach, there be defenders who may well argue that it is better to snatch and run at a cafeteria, than to snatch elsewhere and not be inclined or able to run. The pre-one-arm-chair days have not an unsmirched history. Their graces, sung oblivious to the facts, are those with which time seems to invest almost everything...