Word: arms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legionaries who stayed ashore in Genoa commented up the reserve, the dignity, the almost disdain of Fascist Italy. How it contrasted with demonstrative France! But soon "buddies" were saluting camerati; soon they were imitating the Fascist salute (right arm forward, raised at 45°, palm open downward) and solemnly saluting one another with...
...Stresmann, grinning amiably, waited for the French statesman and the two went out arm-in-arm to the buffet. There amid the buzz & chatter of delegates, officials and newspapermen, they sat down in a vacant space in the dead centre of the room. Silence fell...
...courtmartial to look briefly into the muzzles of rifles. General Alfredo Rueda Quijano, cavalry commander who sought to lead his troops in rebellion against Calles, waved farewell to three New York reporters in the courtyard of the San Lazaro Prison as the commander of the firing squad dropped his arm...
Bent, his withered left arm hanging loosely by his side, the fallen All Highest went on: "While ministers with olive branches in their hands are discussing peace, I see jealousy among the nations steadily increasing. New experiments are made with U-boats, torpedoes, ex- plosives and horrid gases, and secret discussions are carried on on the employment of poisonous gas on the oceans. Besides transocean flights, secret duration flights are made by planes heavily loaded with bombshells, so that one must consider the possibility of being at- tacked suddenly...
...ladder of fame, one downwards, the other up, each to remain in the public memory as long as is customary for fallen idols: for, to assume the pessimistic attitude and to predict the inevitable, each will be a fallen idol in a surprisingly short time, and he whose arm extended aloft in the calcium glare last night is destined to as deep an obliviou as he who failed to heed the final count. But such philosophy and pessimism is dealing in futurities by four hours, for if the comedy is postponed on account of rain, obituaries, and paeons, including editorials...