Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next it was ABC's turn. Last week in the Almendares district of Havana two U. S. tourists discovered the body of Policeman Francisco Rafael Cepero with his ear cut off, his throat slashed, a bullet in his temple. Tied to his right wrist was a blue tag inscribed: "The ABC will mete out this death to all long-tongued persons." Long-tongued Cepero's crime had been to shout a warning to Chief of Police Major Arsenic Ortiz (who got his present job after being accused with two others of 44 political murders in Santiago) when three...
...Speaker of the House bangs out his will with a mallet-like gavel swung by the wrist and forearm. He is privileged to take the floor and join in legislative debate at will. He must vote to break a tie and may vote whenever else he chooses. As leader of the House majority he picks the legislation he wants brought up. Members speak only at his grace. During the last six days of a session his power to recognize a motion to suspend the rules makes him an absolute dictator of House procedure...
Over the Exhibition the Guardian glowed: "The surprising bicycle 'boom' of the last 18 months is shown here in all its glory, from midget machines to luxurious tandems with no fewer than eight gears which can be changed with a flick of the wrist while the cyclists are actually pedaling. There is thus no need on these machines to freewheel while slipping into another gear...
Yearly X-rays of every student's wrist bones are taken to show the actual bodily growth indicated by the ossification of the bones. The physical measurements are taken by three separate testers to insure accuracy...
Hemingway has seen hundreds of bullfights, all the best contemporary matadors, regards himself as an authority. He gives his frank, often violently stated opinion of all of them: the late Maera who killed one of his last bulls with a dislocated wrist, after five tries; the cowardly Cagancho who is wonderful with a bull he trusts, wretched with all others; Rafael El Gallo, famed for his final appearances and for his shamelessness in refusing even to try to kill a bull who looks at him in a way he does not like; the late great Joselito who killed...