Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your August 3 issue of TIME I see a note on the Texas-Oklahoma "Bridge War" to the effect that Ranger Captain Tom Hickman had "hit 18 out of 20 matches at 50 feet shooting from the hip;'' also that Ranger Goss had "cut a playing card at 20 yards with his pistol inverted...
While motorists made a twelve-mile detour to another bridge, the Texas Rangers under mighty Captain Tom Hickman answered Governor Murray's criticism that "all they can do is cuss and shoot craps" with a public demonstration of their marksmanship. Captain Hickman shooting from the hip hit 18 out of 20 matches at 50 ft. Ranger Goss, firing his pistol upside down, split a playing card...
...passed that two rival establishments, the Apollo and Pompeii, were undisturbed. Managers, customers, girls and waiters went out to battle. Beer bottles crashed through the windows. Heavy saucers hummed through the air. An Andalusian blonde was felled by one on her ear. One of the attacking Amazons had her hip gashed by a seltzer bottle...
From detailed measurement it is apparent that in the Harvard men all measurements have increased with the exception of head breath, breath of hips, and length of the upper arm. This means that Harvard men are taller and relatively more slender than their fathers, and have increased particularly in leg length, shoulder breadth, and thoracic circumference, but have decreased in hip breadth. The present evolution fervency is toward an accentuation of masculine characters of body build. As a matter for fact the same is true of the college daughters...
...Yuko Hamaguchi of Japan (second operation to relieve condition caused by shooting?TIME, Nov. 24); Mrs. Ida Young, mother of Owen D. Young, who hastened from Phoenix, Ariz, to her side (skull-fracture sustained in a fall downstairs) ; Cinemactor Harold Lloyd (appendectomy) ; Publisher William Howard Gannett of Augusta, Me. (hip-fracture from slipping on a gravel road); one-time Brewer Jacob ("Jake") Ruppert, owner of the New York American League baseball team (bronchitis, acute); Novelist James Joyce (waning eyesight, necessitating a third operation); Singer Mary Garden (bronchitis...