Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brothers. One went to sea. The other was elected Vice President. Neither was ever heard from again." Tom Marshall did not live to hear about a Vice President who went to sea and was next heard from when he landed with the Marines to take the situation well in hand...
...coming troops after the War. He soon became the city's official welcomer. For years no notable arrived in New York harbor-not Lindbergh, not Admiral Byrd nor Queen Marie of Roumania-without the press carrying pictures of Grover Whalen in frock coat and striped trousers, topper in hand, gardenia in buttonhole, steaming down the bay on the bridge of the municipal yacht Macom to extend the hospitality of the city...
This in the House of Lords is an offense punishable by a $2,500 fine. The Archbishop of Canterbury was seen at this point tensely bending forward with his hand cupped across his forehead as though earnestly praying for Lord Moray. Other peers physically dissuaded him from striking a match, led him out to be attended for several hours by a hastily summoned physician, had him taken home at I a. m. by friends...
...project so great as that envisioned by His Majesty can be compressed into an informal, friendly letter of reasonable length, but the encouraging lead which Leopold III gave to Premier van Zeeland was phrased in "the King's own hand" thus...
...forward, recaptured most of Brunete in a sunset onslaught and by dawn were stubbornly giving ground, battling bayonet to bayonet, with warcraft diving from the skies to machine-gun the struggling troops. This week the Leftists were forced to evacuate the village of Brunete which had been bombed, shelled, hand-grenaded and machine-gunned into smoldering chaos...