Word: wristed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...opponent for the title she won a year ago was her close friend and houseguest, Helen ("Billie") Hicks. Still a little chagrined at failing to qualify for last year's cham- pionship, after winning the year before, Helen Hicks, swinging her driver with a masculine wrist-flick and punching out her irons like a pro, had beaten square-jawed Maureen Orcutt...
...with Chilcote's lovely estranged wife (Elissa Landi), does his best to dismiss vampirish Lady Joyce (Juliette Compton). Chilcote's faithful servant Brock (Halliwell Hobbes) is party to the deception, helps prolong it until Chilcote is dead and Loder has nothing but a War scar on his wrist to remind him that he has been a masquerader...
...Walsh's cries sent the porter scurrying for Conductor Herbert Weathersbee who rushed through seven Pullmans to reach the drawing room. He held the Senator's wrist, felt his heart's final flutter. Dr. Richard J. Costello of Cambridge, Mass., who was a passenger in the same car, pronounced Senator Walsh dead. A priest was routed out of his berth to administer conditional absolution and the sacrament of extreme unction. At Wilson. N. C., Dr. Malry Alfred Pittman boarded the train, gave a sedative to hysterical Mrs. Walsh, had her and her husband's body removed...
...morning that he had the 2,500 h.p. Blue Bird towed to the end of the course, 40 yd. wide and nine miles long with the measured mile in the centre, the sand was still rough and strewn with shells. Sir Malcolm's left wrist, sprained on the gearshift in a 240-m.p.h. trial spin last fortnight, was still sore. A thin dangerous haze had not entirely disappeared when Sir Malcolm decided he could wait no longer...
...family game in England, British women have played more, now play better than Americans. Practicing against men has taught them that the most effective shots are not necessarily the swiftest, that the spindling bat should be controlled not with the forearm, like a tennis racquet, but with the wrist...