Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Millerand moved surely and boldly, revealing himself as the velvet hand within Poincaré's mailed fist. He announced that M. Poincare would form a new Cabinet. In a statement from the Elysee Palace (Executive Mansion), M. Millerand showed that the radicals need expect no change: The general lines of the French policy cannot possibly be changed for any other reason than the clearly expressed will of the country. The President of the Republic has every confidence that M. Poincaré, whose name symbolizes this policy, will form a new Cabinet which can continue this policy of firmness...
...matter was closed in a session which lasted all night, until 5:30 a. m. Premier Poincaré retired, ill, at 11 p.m. Bedlam and disorder reigned in the debate. The Finance Minister nearly started a fist fight. Then the bill was passed, 315-254, the smallest majority the present Government ever received...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Johnny Shugrue bumped his nose on Pal Moran's fist in the first round of their prospective twelve. Blood-flow external and internal from the broken nose blinded him. In the fifth round the referee called the bout on account of Shugrue's optical darkness. When the end came, he was a vivid study in red. Moran punched and punctured at the same time...
...will not know what the words are, but one does not need to know a language to know the meaning when a man scowls and shouts and shakes his fist. I will smile and wonder to myself if these brave men who wish me ill in so loud a voice would like to come up in the ring with me and call me names. I will wonder if perhaps six or even twelve of them at once would like to come into the ring with me and call me bad names...
...fool that I do not know that the champion of the world is a human being, like anybody, and I know that any one who is a human being will be knocked out if I hit him in the proper place on the jaw with my right fist...