Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Hoover stood on the Convention platform to make his farewell address, the demonstration was genuine and joyous. He beamed and waved. After 15 minutes of yelling, shrieking, hooting, he was allowed to begin. With left hand in pocket and chubby right fist bouncing on the rostrum in time with his denunciation, he culminated his six-month attack on the New Deal with a masterly peroration. Excerpts...
...Harding as she caught a man peeking into her 7-year-old daughter Jane's stateroom when the S. S. Duchess of Atholl called at Belfast. No sooner had the ship reached Great Britain than a flock of British newshawks descended on Miss Harding, almost got into fist fights with chivalrous passengers who went to her aid, forced her into hysterics long before she reached Liverpool. There she sent Jane ashore separately in disguise, narrowly foiled a fake kidnapping conceived by a British tabloid. Wailed Cinemactress Harding at Belfast: "I'll never permit Jane...
...defunct First National Bank of Gulfport had been reduced. The Judge admitted that he had done so as a routine function, pointed out that the compromises had been first approved by the Comptroller of the Currency. Insolvent Senator. Pat Harrison bravely faced the Senate committee, thumped his fist on the table and, looking Senator Bilbo in the eye, declared: ''This was not brought in here to hurt Judge Holmes. It was brought up in an effort to hurt me. And I can take care of that before the people of Mississippi. I thought, back in 1925, like...
Still expansive, II Duce plumped himself down at the head of a table between two women reporters, one from France, one from Germany, unbuttoned the top of his tunic, banged on the table with a spoon, shouted for food. He lolled on the table, leaning his head on his fist, twisting his head back and forth toward each of his guests. A messenger rushed in importantly, pushed an official message under II Duce's nose. II Duce glanced over it with a sleepy look, waved the messenger away. Eventually a mountain of spaghetti appeared. News to the foreign Press...
...Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet's nose, led him out before a good-sized congregation. Not the father but the son began beating the pulpit with a childish fist, pointing a small finger to heaven and piping in a clear treble : "Man has a two-fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual being and both natures have been equally affected by the Fall. His body is exposed to disease, his soul corrupted by sin. How blessed, therefore...