Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...survive the rigors of the Presidency. The Press has studiously refrained from referring to the condition of his legs. Citizens have bitterly resented even the most oblique reference to it in public. It was taboo. Were it not for occasional press photographs showing him steadying himself on the arm of an aide, future historians could hardly guess from news reports of the day that the 32nd President of the U. S. was any different, physically, from his 30 predecessors in office...
Caesar was deaf in his left ear. George III was insane. The Kaiser has a shriveled arm. Andrew Jackson had tuberculosis. Abraham Lincoln suffered from chronic constipation. None of these statements is offensive to U. S. citizens. But when John Gay mentioned the infirmity of a living President of the U. S., angry booing broke loose in the Waukesha hall. A quartet struck up a campaign song, thereby temporarily restoring order. Then Nominee Chapple rose and spoke...
...diabetes and myxedema. In pernicious anemia the stomach fails to secrete a certain substance which as yet has not been isolated. Ordinarily that stomach secretion mixes with food, especially meats, and produces a second, unidentified substance in the intestines. There the second unknown is absorbed and gets to the arm and leg bones where it stimulates the production of red blood cells...
...quitted himself so ably that his commanding officer, General Scott, referred to him as "the very best soldier that I ever saw in the field." Though often under fire, nearest he came to death was when a nervous U. S. sentry's bullet passed between his left arm and his body, singeing his uniform. After his Mexican service, Lee was superintendent of West Point for three years. Lee commanded the troops that ended John Brown's ill-timed revolt at Harpers Ferry. Just before the Civil War broke out. Lee was vegetating in an army post in Texas...
...little feet must be responsible for the damage done by little hands or, as in the case here, by little teeth," ruled that Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Butterworth were not liable for the action of their 3-year-old daughter Eva Camille who, in a "moment of rage," bit the arm of her Negro nurse...