Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest channel bass of 1925 will gain its captor a silver loving cup, mahogany based, 38 inches high, inscribed "Presented by Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, to the Palm Beach Anglers' Club." Since last year, the President has been an honorary member...
...were true that this conductor was a "hypnotist," whether he could interpret Debussy, whether he wagged his head. They noted that he had a good back. They noted that every now and then, when he wanted to indicate a sudden pianissimo, he shot his left hand into the air, palm flat, in the way of one who hoists a heavy tray or thrusts a torch aloft. For the rest, his gestures were continent. He led Debussy's Nuages; Honegger's Pacific 231, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstacy. Like a storm of white hail came the clapping. With...
...temptation to solve the old problem of alchemy?how to make gold. Here is the 80th electron of a mercury atom revolving around its nucleus, much like a planet around the sun, waiting to be knocked off and leave the precious old Midas-metal in the chemist's palm...
...Roosevelt emphasized his points by vigorous movements of his head and by striking his right list into his left palm. He was a lad of medium height. His slightly curling hair was a light brown color, and he were side whiskers. Behind his spectacles I could see his keen blue eyes flash, and he seemed entirely absorbed in his speaking. His words poured out rapidly, and he fairly stammered in his eagerness to express his ideas. He frowned as he talked, yet at times he paused and smiled. And I noted for the first time, his singular yet winning expression...
...such affairs, the voice of the great unwashed, crying without the gates, must be taken into consideration; and since this is the case, it is almost a foregone conclusion that the palm will eventually be awarded to that Messiah who first awoke a slumbering world, through his pictures, to the criminal impropriety of eating olives with a fork...