Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ball?" White-crowned Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis slapped his pockets, looked hopefully at Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators, who looked helplessly at John J. McGraw, vice president of the Giants, who frantically signalled a policeman. The policeman ran for a ball, tossed it to the President. Right arm upraised, President Roosevelt grinned for photographers, then sang out: "All right, here goes!" He tossed the ball among the Washington players who scrambled madly, big Heinie Manush leaping high to grab...
...Antonio army officer). She felt it even more in the years when she was making her career and Conductor Leopold Stokowski. to whom she was married for twelve years, was making his. Eight years ago Mine Samaroff fell over a trunk, tore a ligament in her right arm, had to five up concert work. She became critic of the New York Evening Post only to be criticized for constantly presenting the musician's point of view. She took to teaching and her most talented pupils had trouble finding audiences. Cornelius Bliss indirectly gave her the idea for a layman...
...petition-to a soldier guard. Then he stepped back, whipped out a revolver, fired two shots at the Chancellor. Doughty little Dollfuss staggered, then calmly walked to his automobile. Surgeons found one bullet in his shirt where it had bounced off a rib. The other had only scratched his arm. Safe and sound at home, the Chancellor prepared to make a radio broadcast that night. Meanwhile his assailant, an ex-soldier named Rudolph Dertil who had been ousted from the Army as a Nazi agitator, explained: "I wanted to show that Dollfuss is unable to take care of himself, much...
...comedy which is now on the road. He writes his plays as rehearsals progress, pacing up & down the aisle dictating to a secretary and the actors. He moves about among the cast like a white-polled patriarch, stroking a girl's hair, giving an actor's arm a friendly squeeze. They love it. His motions are all deliberate, but even in his gravity there is a puckishness which matches the amused expression in his half-closed eyes...
...Francisco, while Dr. William Mills was performing a caesarean operation on Mrs. John Vergez, wife of the New York Giants' third baseman, her pulse stopped. Dr. Mills immediately lanced his left arm, performed a blood transfusion, finished the operation. The child died, Mrs. Vergez was recovering...