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Word: fistfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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He has no sooner wound up a mild flirtation with a lunchroom girl than two men chivvy him into an alley and work him back & forth like a rockinghorse, one hammering at his solar plexus, the other at his kidneys. And he has hardly got his breath back when he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

The Bird. In Waukesha, Wis., three-year-old Geraldine McClurg asked her aunt how to catch a bird, was told to sprinkle salt on its tail, set out with a fistful, returned with a bird.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

You feel that the Russian soldier [TIME, Aug. 20] "thrusting a fistful of rubles" while "liberating" a German bicycle is "confused perhaps by the peculiar customs of an acquisitive society."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1945 | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

To put a little life into what could have been a plotless horror a la Abbott and Costello, the producers have added murder and mystery to provide a spine for an otherwise invertebrate cinema. When flea trainer Allen is left an inheritance of five chairs, which he sells, and then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 6/14/1945 | See Source »

Fistfuls from Firehouse. Because Check is played with a 48-card pinochle deck (i.e., two ordinary 52-card decks with all cards below the nine discarded), every deal is bound to provide a fistful of aces, kings and queens. Bridge players, accustomed to holding a number of "bust" hands during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Parlor Pinochle | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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