Word: arms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quincy, Mass., there was a sultry, grey sky, a wet mist falling. An elegant lady in white shoes and stockings, in a white flannel coat .and a white felt hat with a white straw brim, with white teeth shining in a broad smile, advanced through the crowd. One white arm held a sheaf of pink roses; the other white arm waved gaily. There in the yards of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Grace Goodhue Coolidge?for it was she?took a full-arm swing and smashed a bottle of sparkling mineral water on a stout steel hull, crying, "I christen thee Northampton...
...Pikeville. The feud started over contested ownership of some sows and pigs, lasted until 25 years ago when a mountain preacher brought about a peace agreement. Last year Tennis Hatfield, grandson of onetime leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, offered his hand in friendship to James McCoy, and the two walked arm and arm down the road...
Through a lighted window shaggy old Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France could be seen in his celebrated fighting attitude, slumped and seemingly dozing in a great arm chair, while the onus of battle was borne by his dynamic lieutenant, Louis Loucheur, famed walrus-moustached industrialist and "Richest Man in France." Came a rumor that Germany's bald, flabby-fleshed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann had suddenly collapsed in the midst of an impassioned speech, smitten by his old kidney trouble. The rumor was corrected; Dr. Stresemann had merely gone very pale and turned over the task of talking...
...such thing happened. C. Roy Keys's sleek Wilgold III won handily. Mr. Keys, himself driving another of his speedboats in the race, capsized on a turn, broke his arm...
...Lincoln, Neb., "the lady shall place her left hand on the gentleman's right shoulder or arm and her right hand on the gentleman's left hand, the gentleman's right hand on the lady's back, and at all times the patrons shall keep their bodies at least six inches apart...