Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerned the layman as much eye. His handling of the Tercentenary, his action as the student--all of which has won commendation from the press, have shot Harvard up to the crest achieved by Eliot. At this meeting, then, President Conant will see the reaction of alumni at first hand, and like a good newspaperman he will speak the right kind and amount of information to make that reaction favorable...
...main difficulty is that neither Robert Taylor nor Jean Harlow acts. Robert Taylor has concluded that all that is expected of him is to be irresistibly boyish, which he sets out to be ad nauseam. Jean Harlow, on the other hand, thinks her whore job done if she glowers her way through the show and charges around squalling away in the most strident voice she can muster. Occasionally she sees fit to force the wannest of smiles, which can scarcely compensate anybody for all the termagancy he has witnessed...
Anyone, says the catalogue, who ever held a pole in his hand, or drowsed for an hour or two on the bank of a stream will find plenty to interest him in the Fearing Collection, which reviews the history of the angling art from its earliest origins and one of the finest ever assembled on the subject...
...bitterly opposed to packing the Supreme Court," he said. "I think that the idea of an executive appointing judges with a free hand is fatal, and to remove justices from the bench because they are of a different opinion from the executive's is equally unwise It is the subterfuge with which the whole matter has been surrounded which is objectionable...
...three flights of stairs to my room. When I offered to help she was hurt. This is her job, she explained; and she does it with as much pride as I must do whatever I'm doing. So I gave her five francs and she kissed my hand...