Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later an Italian-led column of Ethiopian troops swooped down and routed the Ethiopian stragglers of Ras Desta Demtu. According to the Italian official version, Haile Selassie's designated Coronation envoy was implicated in the attempt to assassinate Italy's Viceroy in Addis Ababa by means of hand grenades (TIME, March 1). In short order Ras Desta Demtu was executed, and convalescent Viceroy Graziani radioed to Rome: "DUCE YOUR ORDERS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT AS ALWAYS...
...Family." This was the result of misplaced loyalty to her Scottish maid, an honest wench who, realizing perhaps more keenly than anyone else how unfit she was to dress the Queen of England, tearfully protested her inadequacy to her mistress. This peculiarly Scottish situation is now being got in hand by the Queen Mother and Elizabeth is already no sloppy Queen...
...such joyous occasions as a Royal Marriage. A bridesmaid at the wedding of Princess Mary, only daughter of King George & Queen Mary, was wholesome and attractive young Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, today Queen Elizabeth. When the present King George VI presently sought his sister's bridesmaid's hand, she made no secret of her Scottish impression that he had been sent. She unaffectedly told His Royal Highness that she could not, she really could not accept a suitor who had been sent. This was in her father's frowning Glamis Castle where, according to Shakespeare, Macbeth murdered...
...head felt. An idea developed in her dulled wits. The young woman found a 4-in. spike, 316 in. in diameter. The sharp point of this she pressed into her scalp over a trephine hole. It hurt a little, but it made her feel better. Reaching her left hand over her head, she held the spike in position and with her right fist pounded the spike into her brain as far as it would go, Except for the trifling pain in the scalp she felt nothing, because the tissue of the brain is insensate...
...them in another, an impersonator of Samuel Insull demonstrates to a boobish consumer how his great Midwest utilities empire was juggled through the corporate mazes of super-holding companies. There is a short blackout which permits Will Rogers to drawl his celebrated mot: "A holding company is where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you." There are scenes in which consumers vainly protest their light bills, farmers vainly beg for electric service, a parent explains to his little daughter that the Government would be inefficient if it tried to supply electricity. The little daughter, observing that...