Word: forearmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrist Watch. Winding the wrist watch is one of those unpleasant little bedtime duties frequently forgotten. From the Isle of Man comes the device of John Harwood making it no longer necessary. The watch is constructed on the principle of the pedometer, being wound by the movements of the forearm...
...approached a huge power press and thrust into it, with well simulated carelessness, not only an object to be pressed but also his right hand. As the huge plunger crashed down, perturbed eyewitnesses could barely follow the lightning movement of a rubber guard which brusquely pushed the royal hand & forearm to a safe distance...
...this battle for records and for the National A. A. U. one-mile championship, Miss Norelius was seldom more than a muscular forearm ahead of her teammate, Ethel McGary of the Women's Swimming Association of New York...
Outside Philadelphia, Mary Gilmore, 7, and her brother James, 5, plucked flowers, tugged at a strong "root." Out from the soft soil came a woman's stiff finger. The children pulled harder and dragged forth the finger's hand and the forearm, a right one, to which the hand belonged. There was no body. Affrighted the children's parents summoned authorities, who smelled the medical laboratory solution used to pickle anatomical specimens and then decided that frolicsome medical students had "planted" the remnant to hoax Philadelphia police...
...Indian Ocean. At 6, enamored of red circus wagons, he followed them from home; was soon a tight rope walker ("thus,: set, prance, pretend to pitch, up again- ah, the split!") An enemy cut his tight rope; he fell; killed two people. Worse, it tore his painting forearm open. ("You see the scar? Like a shark bite!"). He roars anecdotes about his old pal,Jesse James; tells that his back shows 200 knife and bullet wounds, and that there are two dozen bullets...