Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary editor at $40 a week. He became full-fledged chief after a few weeks, threw out the shears and pastepot. For the next four decades, from nine to five he bustled in action at Independence Square, went home to dinner with a parcel of manuscripts under his arm, read them until late hours. He shunned public appearances, social life...
...your grandfather is the short, grizzled man with a hare-lip, two glass eyes, and a hook on his right arm, that I am thinking of, you are in for a bad time, as whenever he meets me he mistakes me for an old Model The once had, and tries to turn my motor over with my left leg. Fortunately for you he sees a paper rarely...
...spot. He finally dug it up, found it was a marble statue of a woman, lugged it home with difficulty since it weighed almost 200 Ib. Experts pronounced it a masterpiece of Greek art, a lush Venus probably inspired by the school of Pheidias (450-400 B.C.). The right arm is broken off at the shoulder; the left holds draperies which loop down below the belly. The legs are missing below the knees. Most of the nose is missing which makes the profile unpleasant...
...Strong-arm men employed by Mr. O'Hara are in the State; they have trailed officials, and threatened to bump-off the Governor and other officials. Mr. O'Hara has resorted to threats, intimidation and violence The opening of the track for the October races will result in bodily barm and injury to Rhode Island citizens and in lawlessness and disturbances with which civil authorities are unable to cope...
...trick on a bunch of Chinese by arranging to ferry them over from Cuba to the Keys, accepts their money, then kills their leader and abandons the rest. Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan's previous forays had been characterized by double-dealing...