Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twists his body into a horizontal arc "which he holds momentarily," then lights on his hands, flips his feet over his head and finishes as erect as a West Point cadet. "Less than 30% of the Gamma Sigmas are able to do it," admits President Ritter, who broke his wrist Ritter-spanning last year. Most Gamma Sigmas can do the Nelson Arch (a less complicated back flip) and Duos (synchronized tumbling by two or more...
Social rigmarole bores him stiff: he detests dinner-parties, loathes travel, has never been to the opera, took his first drink at 30 and has taken few since. He fights innovation, was almost the last person to adopt soft collars and a wrist watch, was once told by his wife "It's a good thing you were not the world's first baby, or you'd still be crawling...
...them by roundabout route to Italy. She was sentenced to five years in jail. With her were convicted Roger Joël, former draftsman in a Swiss arms plant; Paul Rochat, a Geneva detective, and Rochat's wife Dolly. In jail, Dancer Nina hunger-struck and tried suicide (wrist-slitting...
...buttonhole-"for optimism"-a red carnation and a wee sprig of heather. Less light-hearted was Lieut. Baskervyle Glegg, whose job it was to take care of such military secrets as have so far escaped espionage. Lieutenant Glegg toted his responsibility in a steel dispatch case fastened to his wrist by a three-foot chain. Lieutenant Glegg was heavy of heart because he was, handcuffed to the future of Europe...
Soon the Barrymores' acting gave strong hints of their home life. With gusto John shouted at Elaine such stage lines as "You damned selfish brat." In the play he spanked her harder, she fanged his wrist more savagely, than was necessary...