Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kalinin, the President of Russia - for he is himself a peasant (see cover). A good, a simple and a noble man is Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin. Open house is still his rule to all whom he feels are his brother tillers of the soil. A poor peasant or a rich "Fist" despised by Communists can trudge or journey to Moscow and be sure that, having waited his turn, he may speak his grievance to the Comrade President and warm his stomach with scalding tea from the never-out presidential samovar. Each peasant knows that he may address the President of Russia...
...largest apartments on Park Avenue, Manhattan. Once, his charming wife expressed a fancy for square jewels; he bought for her an emerald both square and huge. Typical of him is the fact that when he first asked Mr. Hearst for the American Weekly advertising job he pulled out a fist-full of advertising contracts already signed and at a higher rate. He got the job. He is also the man who nourished the straw hat industry. He suggested (and carried on a campaign through the Hearst papers) that men begin wearing straw hats 15 days earlier in the season...
...Just that!" shouted the man with the ire, planting his left fist on the other's foppish...
...punch which might well dispute Dempsey's reputation as peerless killer. Henry Ford, 65, who had a good time and whom few people noticed. Also present was Thomas Heeney, 29, hairy-chested blacksmith from New Zealand, who had never before been knocked out by a man's fist. He was beaten, that night last week at the Yankee Stadium, by terrific punches to his heart, by jabs and hooks which made a bloody mush of his nose and left eye. From the fourth to the tenth round, "The Hard Rock from Downunder" was being chewed. And then...
Steadfastly ignored at first by President Smith, the malcontents ascended to a gallery, where they stamped, catcalled and finally picked a fist fight which made proceedings impossible. Roused, "Old Herbie" Smith dashed from platform to gallery, shouting, "I'm 65, but [to one of the Reds] I'll throw you out, Bill Allen...