Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real embarrassment by the conduct of the hearing. A partisan crowd filling the room applauded, yelled, booed, shouted "We want Tugwell!" and "Hurrah for Byrd!" The Senators were no more restrained. When Senator Murphy accused Chairman Smith of attacking the Administration, Mr. Smith, red faced, jumped up, shook his fist under the lowan's nose. "By the eternal God," he cried, "I won't stand for these dirty insinuations! When we took the crown off the head of King George, thank God, we put itj-" "Y-I-A-O-U!" yelled the crowd. Mr. Murphy shouted back: "When...
...corner, prepared to execute the handspring with which he customarily celebrates a victory. Referee Eddie Forbes walked across the ring to the opposite corner, raised Ross's hand. First lightweight champion in history to win the welterweight championship as well. Barney Ross (Bernard Rossofsky) had his first fist fight when he was eight years old, grew up on Chicago's West Side where his father ran a delicatessen, has two managers, wears silk pajamas, fancies himself a songwriter...
Charles Willard Young Jr., 33-year-old Manhattan investment counselor: "I shall not forget a conference with one of the academic know-it-alls . . . who made the statement with great ferocity and pounding of the fist upon the table that 'I don't give a damn about anybody's securities.' I pointed out to him that the great unheard majority was small property owners, . . . that there were more than 13,500,000 mutual savings bank depositors, more than 60,000,000 insurance policy holders. . . . His reply was 'That leaves me cold...
...Century Pope Vitalian recommended an organ for churches with a view to improving the singing of congregations. The first keys were as big as the treadle of a knife-grinder's machine. Strength was the first requisite of a player, who struck at the great slabs with his fist, had the title of "organ-beater." Early in the 15th Century pedals were introduced because the bass keys were so stiff that it was easier to stand on them...
...bunch of spotted yellow bananas. A bull elephant swayed forward automatically, shot out his crinkled trunk and delicately stuffed a handful of bananas into his little pink mouth. Suddenly two little red eyes focussed on Consul Bourguin, the elephant stopped chewing. Out shot the trunk again, like a fist this time, while the elephant trumpeted in rage. Consul Bourguin was knocked sprawling beneath the beast. Down stomped a colossal foot to break his leg and hip, then light as an armful of hay the angry elephant swung the French Consul overhead, hurled him high in the air across the tent...