Word: cramping
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...steins in less than two minutes, begged someone to push him into a foamy vat. A delegation of actors met and praised him at Prague. An enthusiastic Czech presented him with a wire-haired fox terrier. When he reached Budapest he complained of writer's cramp from prodigal autographing. There he was given a bottle of 1827 tokay. The official reception at Vienna was delayed three hours by his tardiness. He danced at Baroncrest, was given a statue of Minerva, complained: "I seem to live in hotel lobbies and banquet halls. I'd like...
...look like frogs, squatty and popeyed, and which Merrill Clary Sosman of Harvard found X-rays will relieve and sometimes cure. The scolding which Harvard's George Richards Minot gave lazy physicians because they think liver extracts will cure every kind of anemia. The scorn with which Arthur Joseph Cramp of Chicago flayed sellers and buyers of patent medicines. The plan of Theodore Louis Squier of Milwaukee's A. 0. Smith Corp. (FORTUNE, Nov. 1930) to preserve the life-long medical record of every person in a community. The criticism by Harrison H. Shoulders of Nashville of the free Government...
...mistake. I devised this method while suffering from a cramp in my hand. I had no idea I was working contrary to the Academy's rules...
...match point in Bell's favor Hunter was throwing up the ball to serve when the Texan, with a faint moan, fell over on his face. Howard Voshell, the referee, carried him to the sidelines, and Hunter's trainer worked for a minute to loosen the cramp which Bell indicated as having stricken his left thigh. The crowd expected him to come out of the club after a rest and go on with the match, but Hunter ended that possibility. Angry, quiet, decisive, he picked up his rackets, threw his white sweater over his shoulders, marched into the locker room...
...much desire a new idea of God, as they desire a new idea of man. If Humanists were to make a creed, the first article would be: 'I believe in Man.' . . . Humanists are not only opposed to all movements, institutions and practices which tend to cramp and confine the human personality and prevent its proper development, but they are also actively engaged in helping those movements which tend to release, develop and expand the life...