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...backspins he knows how to use. He began playing when he was nine in Marianao, Cuba. He speaks broken, almost unintelligible English. Asked what makes him so good, he points to his head. He is temperamental, histrionic: after losing a close match he has been known to put his fist through a windowpane. Aramendi, Vincente, Garate, Teodoro are other able players, can make Ugalde hump himself. In some Latin countries there are no nets in front of the stands because the spectators feel it would be unsportsmanlike not to risk injury by the ball which can break noses, fracture bones...
Leaders. While Mr. Morrow will have no official standing as a Senate leader because of his lack of seniority, he will nevertheless be able to exert a strong Hoover influence on the Senate's nominal leadership. Senator James Eli Watson has made such a poor fist of leading the Senate since last April that his Republican followers have been casting about for a means of displacing...
...Navy's attitude on cruiser design and gun effectiveness, remarked across the council table: "If I could not design a cruiser with six-inch guns that could whip a cruiser with eight-inch guns, I'd go and jump out of the window." Bang went the fist of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams upon the council table. "Then go jump now!" he barked...
...mailed fist of the law is beginning to cast an ominous shadow over the parking spaces around Harvard Square. If the threatening pronunciamento which was uttered by the blue-coated majesty is to be taken at its face value, there will be many sons of Harvard hailing from distant climes who would be glad of the opportunity of claim the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as their native heath...
...blankly staring at the verdict. Down his white, sunken cheek rolled a teardrop, to be kissed away by his sobbing wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow for their friend. Oilman Doheny, crimson with rage and chagrin, shook his fist at the bench and screamed: "That damned court-." Mark Thompson, Fall attorney, went white and limp, slumped to the floor, lay there unconscious for ten minutes before physicians could revive him. Bending over him was Frank Hogan, chief defense counsel, ashy white with disappointment. Cried Lawyer Hogan: "Tell that damned...