Word: fistedness
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A two-fisted drinker who holds his liquor very well, McCarthy does not smoke. He detests cigars. Joe always begins a lunch or dinner speech by coughing raucously into his fist, saying: "Before I begin [cough-cough], I want to ask So & So [cough-cough] just what he has been...
While sweating out the weary months in a Rhodesian internment camp he was assigned to decorate the camp church's interior. He did the job in tempera, and claims that he completed a normal two years' work in four months, egged on by two Franciscan friars who kept...
"I'm afraid you're out of date," says the prexy. "For your information, mounting costs have put our budget entirely out of balance and in order to get this year's budget past the trustees, we'll have to find new revenues. Besides, some of our alumni, including some...
In addition it was understood that the committee, meeting with President Conant and Provost Buck, voiced its support for the current Administration football policy, characterized as "a two-fisted; strictly amateur policy which will enable Harvard to compete with its natural rivals on equal terms," but without any lowering of...
The Balance Wheel refers to a heavy-witted Pennsylvania Dutchman who is no more the hero of a novel than the dumpling in a dish of Sauerbraten. He just happens to sit in the middle of the concoction. His three brothers-a steel-fisted money-grabber, a radical of the...