Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leveling age, the traditions of an imperious past. The Boston murals all treat classic subjects: Chiron teaching a very delicate Achilles how to handle a bow; Atlas stooping among the golden girls of the Hesperides; Hercules, with a billet the size of a railroad tie in his fist, fencing with the Hydra's ducking heads...
...General then unveiled the monument, revealing a fallen soldier with a clenched fist, and the inscription in Latin: "From our bones will arise an avenger...
...Holy Terror. John Golden is chiefly famous for clean plays-a fame in no small measure achieved by his own insistent advertising of the fact. Therefore the sharp knuckles of profanity protruding from the hairy fist of his first play this autumn caused comment. The profanity was not, it is true, intense. But remember the crooks in Turn to the Right and the apaches in Seoenfh Heaven. They never said damn or hell...
...gentleman drew up beside a traffic policeman. The occupant asked the way to Perth Amboy, and received polite directions. "How many children have you?" asked the old man. "Three, sir," replied the officer. The old man stretched out a hand and dropped five dimes into the stout fist of the patrolman. Said...
...Slattery touched gloves and began to weave about each other, glaring. Since the spring evening upon which they had simultaneously established their reputations, Berlenbach had been disqualified for stalling in a bout against Tony Marullo (TIME, July 27), and Slattery been knocked unconscious by a blow from the fist of David Shade, welterweight (TIME, July 13). The stalling, many thought was quite to be expected from a onetime taxidriver; the knockout was a regrettable accident. Nevertheless, as the two squared off, not a few, who had learned through experience the pathetic fallacy of style, had their money on Berlenbach...