Word: fists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bottom of his glass-enclosed bathing pool. Helen Lauer, his physiotherapist, clad like him in a bathing suit, helped him onto the table where he lay supine, partially submerged and buoyed up by a foot of water. Miss Lauer, 35, 5 ft. 5 in., hazel of eye, strong of fist, proceeded to massage one by one the 116 muscles in Governor Roosevelt's toes, feet, legs, thighs, counting 10 as she manipulated each. Then he sat up, swayed his heavy torso forwards and backwards. That was to keep his abdominal muscles in tone...
Author of the House's measure was Thomas Alan Goldsborough, a Maryland Democrat from the rural Eastern shore. A lawyer by profession, his legislative hobby is banking. Placid and friendly at home, he is an energetic, fist-clenching, table-thumping speaker in Congress...
...Versailles and sat in the National Assembly with the Senate to elect the new President. Several Communist deputies arrived in bright blue overalls and work shirts. Two Left Centre deputies arrived quarreling; one twice slapped the other's face. A senator and a deputy began a furious fist fight, blundered into War Veteran Deputy Louis Sevestre who has only one leg, knocked him down. But leading Paris papers called the proceedings "among the quietest in years, out of respect and homage to M. Doumer...
Three years before Ludwig van Beethoven shook his great fist at the thunder & lightning raging outside his window and fell back dead on his bed, his Ninth (last) Symphony was given its first performance in Vienna. Beethoven, a homely, dumpy, shaggy-headed little figure, stood in the orchestra, eyes fixed on his score, awkwardly beating time. He was not the official conductor. The players had been instructed to pay him no attention. He was so deaf by that time that he could hear nothing of the great, surging music called for by the pinny, almost illegible little notes...
Amid shouts and hubbub fiery Laborite James Maxton was seen to threaten with his doubled fist equally fiery Conservative Winston Churchill...