Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) One day last week a bather at Bethany Beach, Del. walked into the surf wearing his wrist watch. The salt water all but ruined the watch but did not harm the bather. For sea baths, sunshine and rest in company with his wife were decidedly good for General Hugh S. Johnson?all the better because, as the watch incident showed, he was still preoccupied with business...
When other newsmen arrived, Mrs. McLean was graciously willing to talk. Yes, she had the Hope diamond with her. In fact she was at that very moment wearing it around her neck. She was also wearing four diamond bracelets on her right wrist, four more on her left, a handful of solitaire rings, and she carried a diamond-chained handbag and a diamond-studded cigaret case. She had just been to Russia, she said, to give Moscow a thrill...
When Arthur W. Fuchs, Eastman's x-ray expert, took the picture, the girl was wearing a white cotton dress. Visible were her jewelry: a necklace and pendant of gold and jade, a white-gold wrist watch, a silver bracelet, two rings, an earring...
...Clifton H. Seaver of Springfield, Mass., wearing dirty white linen knickerbockers, a No. 13 on his sweater, to represent his age: a gold wrist watch, a vacation trip, a bicycle; for beating Sidney Diez of Baton Rouge, 7 games out of 10, in the final of the U. S. marbles championship, with 200,000 entrants: at Ocean City...
...turned westward to skirt a storm area. Squeezed down by the thick blanket of clouds above, the plane had torn an Soft. swath through the treetops, crashed to earth in a blaze of flame. One body, flung clear of the wreckage, was found with hands snapped off at the wrist...