Word: fists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forever from the scene. Had Alabama not repudiated him in 1930 for political apostasy, electing John Hollis Bankhead in his place? Those who supposed they were through with heffling were mistaken. Last week, in full oldtime regalia, "Tom-Tom" Heflin was back upon the Senate floor, smashing a hamlike fist into a pink palm,' ranting and roaring as of old, crying, "My God, Senators, think of that...
...Besides his circus appearances, his newsworthy activities have since included getting divorced by Mrs. Victoria Forde Mix, who charged mental cruelty, "loudness in public," pistol twirling; getting sued for $13,000 by one John Berress of Minneapolis, who charged that while drunk Mix grappled with him, shook a large fist; getting sued by Col. Zack T. Miller for alleged jumping of a contract with Miller's now defunct 101 Ranch Circus; nearly dying from peritonitis following an appendectomy; marrying one Mabel Hubbell Ward...
...naval lieutenant. She it was who last September had been roughly seized and ruthlessly raped by a band of five brown-skinned bucks near the Ala Moana Road. At their trial Mrs. Massie had identified Joseph Kahahawai Jr. as the one who broke her jaw with his fist before assaulting her. A "hung jury" in that case fired a chain of racial excitement and turmoil not ending with the start of the murder trial last week. For the past three months the murder defendants had been held by the Navy at its Pearl Harbor base. Twice their joint trial...
Fourteen other Occidentals (male and female) also took fist blows from armbanded Japanese in Shanghai last week...
...Amid a fist fight in the Chamber of Deputies, confidence in this Cabinet was voted 309 to 262, whereat a spectator in the gallery dropped dead "of excitement" (said the Chamber physician). Later the new Cabinet will face the Senate, which overthrew the previous (Laval) Cabinet. Lying extremely low as Minister of Labor, Pierre Laval was obliged, as his first duty, to report that Frenchmen "totally unemployed" increased 19,000 last week to a grand total...