Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's Shamrock Club, Dancer Betty Blossom swirled onto the floor, swinging a pair of benzine torches. A drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...
Competently acted, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford's humor derives chiefly from the sight of Jean Arthur smashing a plaster skull and a large vase over William Powell's head, from a morgue scene in which Actor Powell lifts the dead jockey's arm into view, asks his assistant to give him a hand. "You've already got one," says the assistant...
...sent engraved circulars to about 1,500 clients, announcing that each of the 400 items of Coolidgeana offered would be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Only 400 bidders showed up for the auction. Dampened, Auctioneer Bean clambered to his dais, banged a gavel, stuck out a brawny arm holding a letter franked by Mrs. Coolidge, yelled for bids. It went for $3. Followed a litter of glassware, vases, pitchers, jars, hot plates, which excited little interest. Then up came a famed old bookcase used by Calvin Coolidge at Amherst. "Who'll give me $50?" boomed Bean. "Five dollars...
...gold. Having taken a 79% devaluation in 1928 and endured the preceding inflation, the French people, particularly its millions of small investors, hate & fear the idea of currency tampering. Lately, however, Jean Frenchman has begun to feel the terrible grind of deflation, and a shot in the economic arm, if reasonably successful, might be forgotten as quickly as dollar devaluation was forgotten...
...Concert Intime" in Washington, D. C. last week the solo performer was a dark-haired, comely young woman who appeared in a low-cut Nile-green gown, bowed graciously to her audience, raised a gold trumpet to her lips, closed her eyes and proceeded to tootle. Her arm muscles twitched while she played. The ruffles on her bosom and the orchids on her shoulder fluttered fitfully with each inspiration. But otherwise there were no signs of exertion...