Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last week Rumania's Parliament had a handsome speaker's rostrum. After three weeks of howling insults, fist fights, hurling inkpots-all caused by Rumania's Skoda munitions scandal and the suicide of General Zika Popescu (TIME, April 10)-the rostrum was reduced to a blasted stump of kindling wood last week. The public was still in the dark on just who had bribed whom, just how much money Czechoslovak munitions tycoons had paid to win their $90,000,000 contract, and what had become of the money...
...going to extirpate Marxism!" shouted Captain Göring amid applause from the conservative Pomeranian Landbund. "I am going to keep my fist on the neck of these creatures until they are finished. We are not only going to extirpate the pest but we are going to tear the word Marxism out of every book. In 50 years nobody in Germany is going to know what the word means...
...Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom, light-heavyweight champion: a fight against stubby, bowlegged Adolph Heuser of Germany, in which Rosenbloom jabbed, slapped and cuffed his game opponent for 15 rounds without closing his fist for a single honest punch; in Manhattan...
...strong enough. Kong breaks them in full view of a first night audience, pushes down the side of the theatre, wrecks an elevated train, climbs up the side of a hotel as though it were a ladder. When he finds Miss Wray he climbs, with her in his fist, up the outside of the Empire State Building. He sits down on the mooring mast, disgusted by his surroundings. A squad of airplanes finally shoot him down...
Although no fist rate is offered, under this plan the average person can procure a private pilot's license for approximately $125. This entitles him to fly any type of airplane, but due to the recent law passed by the Massachusetts Legislature, he cannot give instruction to anyone nor can he fly for hire. This price again is about half the usual cost...