Word: arms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could visualize the sort of woman she was going to grow to be -strong, keen-minded, intelligent, a woman of quality, fit to mother a prince or a president. I used to call her the wonder girl. Then came the day when they bared her soft, well-rounded arm and jabbed it with the virus point. She didn't want it done. . . . And her par-ents fought against it. ... but the authorities, the tools of the medical autocrats, insisted. So they injected into that blooming, perfect body the wicked vaccine virus, poisonous pus that comes from the sore...
Borrowing a friend's automobile, he bucks traffic at Philadelphia's busiest corner. Result: one broken arm for a traffic officer, one damaged trolley car, one bent automobile, one gash on the brow for the showoff, one fine of $1,000 for his relatives to pay. "That's the law for you!" he comments. Reverses of fortune and a good lecture from a sister-in-law render him unabashed. At the end the author makes the show-off partly instrumental in bringing a fortune to the family...
...Angeles, a white horse, carrying a nude cinema lady enacting Lady Godiva's ride, went wild, threw the lady, stamped on her arm, leaped into the orchestra pit, landed among a crowd of 450 extras...
...greater disabilities can be imagined than that of the loss of an arm to a pianist. Yet recent death notices contain the name of an old Hungarian, aged 75, famed as a pianist despite the loss of his right arm. Count Geza Zichy was a boy of 14 when maiming came to him in a hunting accident, yet with extraordinary courage and perseverance he schooled his remaining arm to do the work of two. He achieved such mastery that he gained the admiration of Liszt, who proclaimed him a phenomenon, accepted him as his pupil...
...confined the work so far to mere limbering up. He has done little actual coaching and that little only on the rudimentary points of how to stand on the rubber and how to throw to bases. He is going on the principle that the development of a pitching arm must be gradual and that three months of indoor work lie ahead...