Word: fists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) Since the Roosevelt Administration's fist shot out and smashed the aviation industry suddenly and solidly between the eyes, two months had passed and last week, its sleeves rolled down, its face still pink for the consequences of its deed, the Administration was ready to help the industry to its feet again. Chief causes of the Administration's lasting embarrassment were the interred or incinerated remains of 13 military flyers who died when the Army, on notice too short for proper preparation, was given the nation's airmail to fly. A secondary cause...
...that it would appear that history is repeating itself in a strangely short time. The League of Nations will consider, delay, expostulate, threaten, be extremely firm, and Japan will emerge with what she desires. It has been said that Wilson, in his notes to Germany, first shook his fist, and then shook his finger. The League is at least consistent in following the example of its creator. The United States will probably be firm in its traditional policy of friendship toward China; this moral backing will doubtless be highly comforting to China. But unless some Power or group of states...
...covered wagon station in Texas, he started his career by catching birds and snakes with a bolas (which he uses on the cassowary in Wild Cargo). Since then he has crossed the Pacific 40 times, made five trips around the world, knocked out an orangutan in a fist fight. At Singapore, he maintains a completely stocked base for his expeditions. Throughout the Malay Peninsula he has native scouts who report to him the unexpected appearance of any rare or curious creature from the deep jungle. In Manhattan, where he has a handsome apartment in the Park Central Hotel, he keeps...
...swung at him with his fist. For all his 70 years Messenger Parker dodged nimbly, doubled up his fists, prepared for battle. A policeman arrested the striker...
...must give the makers of "Looking for Trouble" credit for originality, at least. To build a movie around the institution of telephone trouble shooting, to drag in a couple of sweet love affairs, a murder, no end of fist-fights, and much mad dashing about, is fairly usual; but to wind it all up by shooting a gun which starts an earthquake which hits the lady villain on the head with a multitude of bricks and induces her to confess her sins, thereby saving the lives of all the nice people, is a stroke of sheer genius. Besides that, Jack...