Word: fists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
White House spokesmen were careful to explain that the maneuver has no international significance, is being done chiefly for the benefit of the officers and enlisted men. Washington observers agreed, however, that putting the country's mailed fist into its eastern pocket might soften the blow to Japan of U. S. recognition of Russia. Said a Japanese Foreign Office official in Tokyo: "It will make a happy impression on the Japanese people...
...only House football game played yesterday afternoon, Phillips Brooks and Kirkland Houses battled to a scoreless tie. The game was featured by fist fights between members of the P.B.H. team...
...death of Brahms, witnessed only by his housekeeper, has never before been described. Wagner was working at his desk when his death stroke came. Beethoven died in a thunderstorm shaking his great fist at the elements. Brahms's housekeeper, feeling that a man's death should be in keeping with his accomplishments, never spoke of the passing of Brahms until rangy, likeable Author Schauffler came along. For him she described the dying Brahms whose last words-"Ja, das ist schön"-concerned some wine that a friend had sent in. At the end. she said. Brahms could...
...reported that ''Wall Street influences" were trying to keep the Senators from their work. Mr. Aldrich, visibly agitated, demanded a prompt and thoroughgoing investigation of all Chase's Cuban deals, to clear the air. He demanded so insistently that Senator Fletcher banged the table with his fist: "We will do as we please about it, Mr. Aldrich." Flustered Mr. Aldrich murmured: "I'm sure you will...
...School of City Planning is the fist of its kind in the United States and is under the direction of Professor Howard K. Menhinick. In addition to lectures by him, addresses will also be given by Jay Downer, Chief Engineer of the Westchester County Park Commission, Charles W. Eliot, grandson of Harvard's late President and former Director of the Planning Commission of Washington...