Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected that late arrivals during the week will bring the total over the 100 mark. The entire Varsity coaching staff was on hand along with Jayvee and Freshman coaches, Henry Lamar and Skip Stahley...
Last week in Chicago there came to public attention a more baffling case of inversion than any previously discovered - a schoolboy who writes with his left hand, not only backwards but also upside down. When he was in the first grade in Chicago's Fulton Elementary School, Frank Balek, now eleven, the son of a left-handed mother, puzzled his teachers because he could not learn to read or write. In the second grade he pushed his paper sideways, began to make some progress. By the third grade he had shoved the paper all the way around...
Here was a case worth a prosecutor's diving into, and in dove New York County's ambitious District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey in unprecedented style. Although the State's Attorney General had the case well in hand. Prosecutor Dewey secretly called before his Grand Jury Dick Whitney's sister-in-law while he himself queried Mrs. Whitney. Then Prosecutor Dewey suddenly snatched Dick Whitney from under Lawyer Ambrose V. McCall's astounded nose with an indictment charging that Richard Whitney had appropriated another $105,000 in securities from the trust fund left...
...CRYSTAL WORLD-Richard Aldington- Doubleday, Doran ($1.75). An author who always manages to seem honester than the words he writes, Novelist Aldington (Death of A Hero, All Men Are Enemies, et al.) here plies his trade-secret with a heavy hand. Twenty-one oozy love lyrics, written in the first person, are followed by a commentary in which he describes the crystal sources of the ooze. For debutantes, deadly poison...
...beauty inspired Henry James, George Moore, Rodin, Sargent and himself. One of his stories about her gives the slightly archaic flavor of his worldly revelations, which sound like something out of Proust. When Rodin was working on a bust of Mary Hunter he praised her beauty, kissed her hand "a little too greedily." When she told Blanche of Rodin's excitement when they were alone in his studio, "I reminded her," he says, "of J. Dominique Ingres' frenzy in the presence of Comtesse d'Haussonville." It appears that when Ingres was painting the Comtesse he found...