Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return from hibernation of America's only nationally recognized institution. When you see pictures of broad-smiling, becapped youths and old young men in the papers who are reported to be "holding out", when mothers miss their offspring regularly in the long afternoons, when mayors start exercising their arm muscles, you know truthfully that baseball is here...
...short with well-developed arm and back muscles. He wore a brief pair of shorts, white socks, and low sneakers that were badly torn. He also wore heavy black-horn rimmed glasses which were protected by a little wire and leather mask. He ran up and down the floor working his legs like pistons, with his hands stiffly beating the air at his sides. He carried his head high and his chest was puffed out so that he looked like nothing more than a cocky Mickey Mouse. Or I could have imagined him as Fanny Brice burlesquing the dance...
Later he freed himself from his man, by pulling the other's arm and throwing him off balance, and cut for the basket. Near the foul line he caught the ball, jumped around like a rabbit, and threw the ball with both hands at the basket. It sailed over the backboard and delayed the game thirty seconds...
Glumly, after an exhausting hour of debate, the Senate recessed to sleep on its dilemma. Instead of hurrying off about their fun, Senators went into unhappy little huddles. Vice President Garner bounced up to Senator Byrnes, threw an arm around his shoulders, whispered something...
...widowhood and never to the significance of the nine-strand collar of pearls which for more than 30 years has been her only ornament. Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned. Likewise she scorns Tennist Helen Wills Moody's strong right arm, and Max Schmeling's entire musculature. Says she: "Tennis and basketball players coming down from their leaps resemble the comic stance of a drinking giraffe...