Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zangara's shooting arm was suddenly shoved up in the air by the frail hand of Lillian Johns Cross, wife of a Miami physician. From the row behind, Thomas Armour, a lanky Miami contractor, reached forward, also grabbed that lethal arm. But Zangara's fingers kept working the stiff trigger...
...forehead and gold teeth glinting between thin lips. That morning Mr. Conway had announced that Willard F. Aurand, the choirmaster, would not be present for the evening services. But Choirmaster Aurand was there. He arose and announced a hymn. Savagely Mr. Conway wheeled about. Out shot his black-clothed arm; his gaunt hand struck Choirmaster Aurand a sharp blow. Across the rostrum, over the chancel rail tumbled the choirmaster, to the floor five feet below...
...Havana last week the Porra, President Machado's strong arm squad, made a tactical mistake which became the sensation of the Spanish speaking world. One night the body of an obscure student, Mariano Gonzalez Gutierrez, was found shot dead, sprawled on its face near a warehouse which the police claimed was full of arms and munitions. Brazenly the Porra admitted the shooting, justified it under the Ley de Fuga ("Law of Flight"). Student Gonzalez, they said, had been arrested while prowling near the warehouse. He was shot "while attempting to escape...
...flagman swings his lamp, or his flag or hand, in a vertical circle at half-arm's length across the track. The engineer blows three short blasts, his indication that he has understood the signal to back.* Then he throws the locomotive into reverse. If he has a power reverse gear he just turns a little wheel, steam doing the rest. If he has a hand reverse gear he has to push hard and knows that the antic steam may kick the lever and break his arm...
Died. Vladimir de Pachmann, 84, famed Russian pianist; peacefully, of pneumonia; in Rome, Italy. After 70 he worked out a new piano technique (straight arm from elbow to knuckle). Amazement at his own mastery marred his concerts ("Bravo! Bravo!" "You never heard anything like this." "Terrible! I will do better tomorrow."), drew crowds. Declaiming, gibbering, playing to a pile of unset jewels on the piano end, once to a pair of socks, bouncing on the piano stool, his shows were fine pianizing or fine Pachmannizing. Specialty: Chopin. A nickname (by the late James Gibbons Huneker) : "The Chopinzee...