Word: hand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...king!" added King Alfonso. "My idea of the kingship is that the monarch must set the example. . . . There are always plenty of people who will occupy themselves with diplomacy and foreign relations and make that their specialty. I am inclined to let them have a free hand. . . . My inclinations are towards industry and the development of Spain. . . . I am a worker. . . . The idea that a King is a man who lives in a beautiful house surrounded by silk-dressed valets and plumed lackeys, fine soldiers and such sort of people-a kind of touch-me-not-is antiquated...
Obediently, Elizabeth sped to Bled. In the presence of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, her sister Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, Prime Minister Zhivkovitch of Jugoslavia and members of the Royal Family, she took a lighted candle in one hand, the royal babe in the other, and walked around the sacramental table in the castle chapel while Patriarch Dimitrea of the Jugoslav Orthodox Church named the little prince Andreja (Andrew...
Pugnacious Man. His feet are apart, form a strong base. His knees are bent and strong, his wrist turned out, his hand in. His head is forward, his chin...
Timid Man. His feet, knees, elbows and wrists are turned in. While his hand is turned out, his thumb is covered by his fingers. Often timidity is betrayed by a curled little finger. His chest is low, his head on an angle, his chin raised...
...clean off the canvas. At the ringside, Heeney's wife tore her handkerchief, moaned into it. In the ninth Heeney was twice bumped to the floor, twice wambled up again. The referee, humane, stopped the bout but neglected the ceremony of lifting high the victor's right hand. Campolo, a ceremonious Latin, raised it himself, promenaded about the ring, threw kisses to the audience...