Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...having trouble putting on a jacket in a studio, Grunwald gallantly leaped to help her. The photographer, accustomed to letting models shift for themselves, said somewhat scornfully: "I can see you're new to this business." After two weeks' work on the story, Grunwald was an old hand, and so impressed by the smooth way in which Lisa worked with Photographer Penn that he decided to make it the lead of his story...
...glow seemed to spread over the whole General Assembly on its opening day of firmly fixed smiles and heavy hand-pumping. Delegates exchanged greetings with an almost perfectly uniform ritual: strong right-hand clasp, affectionate left-hand pat on the back. The official nurse, on duty just across a corridor from the General Assembly Hall, dispensed only one headache powder the first day (to a Chilean delegate...
Look out of the windows on the left hand side of the subway train crossing the Charles St. bridge the next time you're going in town and you'll see, sticking up between the Bunker Hill monument and the Navy Yard cranes, the great red truss of Boston's first big bridge. Stretching somewhat over two miles from City Square, Charlestown to Chelsea Square, the huge double decker is 3000 feet longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over...
Unless Harvard and Columbia play to a tie at Baker Field today, one of two jinxes which will ride into the game must go out the window. The Crimson hasn't won a football game away from Cambridge in three years; on the other hand, in their seven meetings with Harvard, the Lions have never triumphed...
...Lampoon's high command that their journal is published purely for the amusement of themselves, their minions, and those of their friends who share their exact estimate of what is funny. This would be a valid argument if the Lampoon were typed on Kleenex and passed fraternally from hand to hand. However, the Lampoon is a bona fide publication, "Copyrighted . . . entered at the Boston Post Office," and engaged in selling advertising space to merchants who presumably expect to reach more people than are usually gathered in the Great Hall of the aviary...