Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strengthen your fist and spirit. It is the spirit that makes the fist rise and fall on the head of the Fatherland's enemies...
...huge anachronism of the ring, struck a blow for middle-aged men. The blow landed flush on the point of Floyd Johnson's jaw in the closing seconds of the eleventh round of their fight at the New York Yankee ball park. The force of Willard's fist lifted Johnson off his feet and he dropped like a dead man. He was unable to answer the bell for the twelfth round. Willard, 42 years old, had knocked out the best of the young heavyweights, a man young enough...
...York Globe published a series of articles describing Germany under the rule of a new mailed fist- that of the iron and coal kings...
...rare and difficult art of unaccompanied singing. He has recruited his singers from his parish. The Church is at 59th Street and Ninth Avenue and the parish embraces some of the rudest and roughest blocks of New York's West Side, traditional as a region of brick and fist fighting rather than aesthetic cultivation. The boys are largely street urchins, sons of longshoremen and bricklayers. They quarrel and scamper on sidewalks and in back yards. But on occasion they put on their cassocks and cottas and, either in church or at formal recitals in concert halls, intone the deep...
...practice but recently installed, contemplates for another year at least of gently but firmly rejecting, not to say ejecting, all ladies, who may seek admittance to the Union's interesting series of lectures by notable figures of a busy world. Frankly, is that not shaking a mean fist instead of a hospitably extended hand at certain members of the Education School and Sister Radcliffe, not to speak of a few hundred professors' wives, who might possibly be interested in Current Events...