Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everybody knew which way we were going. . . . Yet there were men . . . who tricked the voters by wearing our insignia, only to turn against us as soon as they got in office. . . . Even while they hacked away at the foundation of the program with one hand, they were patting the President on the back with the other, protesting to the voters that they were really good Democrats . . . like the young man who abandoned his father and mother and then asked for public sympathy on the ground that he was an orphan...
Those who witnessed Batsman Hutton's prodigious whacking at Kennington Oval last week will hand the story down to future generations: how it took the best Australian bowlers three days to get him out; how he was at bat 13½hours, ran 6½ miles; how the mayor of Pudsey sent him a telegram after every 50 runs; how, when he surpassed Don Bradman's record, the game was interrupted, all the players shook his hand, a waiter in tails and white tie scampered onto the field with a drink of lemonade, 30,000 spectators rose...
...room shack on the Meadowbrook Farm near Merced, Calif., Mrs. Ola Harwell, 26, was reading the Bible to her husband Woodrow, itinerant cotton picker, and her two small sons: "Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee," read Mrs. Harwell from the Book of Matthew, "cut them off, and cast them from thee. . . ." "Amen," said her family. She shut the Bible with a snap. "My right eye and my left hand have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy...
...Forced to lie in camp several weeks, he spent much of his time thinking up a way to make some money. Rubbing his stubby beard, he hit on the idea of a mechanical shaver. But Schick electric shavers did not appear on the market until 1931, and these first hand-made models sold at $25. Many a man began to wonder how he had got along without one. When Schicks later went on a mechanical assembly line, the price was cut to $15. Not long thereafter hundreds of thousands of men either had bought the shiny new gadgets...
...chief interest in Biographer Pearson's own life is the period he spent as an officer in Persia during the War; he outstared and outran the natives, boasts of making tough army men eat out of his hand. Of main interest to the reader are his anecdotes of George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton, Frank Harris, Hilaire Belloc, Conan Doyle. The best of them-a sizzling dialogue, between Shaw and Chesterton, Frank Harris' belligerent interview with Galsworthy-are secondhand. Also among the secondhand are such random anecdotes as one concerning a friend of a friend who once found himself...