Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popping into his plane Herr Hitler then flew to Berlin. To the astonishment of correspondents, he alighted arm in arm with Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels whom they had supposed to be in hiding since he had been called "the brains of Roehm" and was rumored in Berlin to be the intellectual head of Storm Troop discontent...
...succeeded in his profession largely by accident. His father, Francisco Gomez, was a rancher and rodeo performer who settled in Rodeo, Calif. There Vernon was born in 1910. At 13, Vernon Gomez hoped to be a rodeo performer also. He fell off a horse and broke his right arm, took to throwing baseballs with his left. The next spring while a freshman at Richmond High School, he became so expert that a Pacific Coast League team offered him a contract. A member of his high-school basketball and swimming teams for three years, he also played football. Instead of going...
...came forward with outstretched hand to greet Harvard Alumnus Roosevelt. Through crowded streets the visitors drove to Yale's auditorium, Woolsey Hall, to attend the University's 233rd Commencement. While an orchestra played the overture to Die Meister singer, the President, leaning on his son's arm, marched upon the platform in black gown and took his seat among notables. One by one Yale's graduate students were given their degrees. William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps, himself unexpectedly presented with a doctorate of laws by President Angell, turned to citing the University's guests for honorary...
...sprang his little surprise. He stepped out not in Nazi uniform but wearing an old rain coat over a dark business suit and crushing in his left hand a rumpled brown hat. Click!-the heels of II Duce's black top boots snapped together and up went his arm in the Roman salute Nazis have borrowed. Up went Der Führers arm, too, and Dictator eyed Dictator, each stern to the point of glowering. For the first time on record the unruly lock of hair which normally hangs forward over Adolf Hitler's brow was seen...
...spectators who would scarcely have noticed dogs permitted to "terrify" a fox. "Things like that don't hurt a tough steer," snorted Tex Austin. "So far our rodeo has had only four real accidents- all of them to cowboys. The record is four broken collarbones and one broken arm. That's what happened to my men. They have a great Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals here, but none for prevention of cruelty to cowboys...