Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berigans' dog, Bozo, got his foot and tail caught in a hay mower, Frank Berigan jumped over a fence to help him, cut himself on one knee, hit himself in the eye with the other; sister Pat ran out of the house, slipped, sprained her wrist; Mrs. Berigan, startled as she was canning, sprained her finger; and Champ, another Berigan dog, jumped over the barn door and broke his foot...
When a drowning seaman is brought out of the sea, he is immediately bound (either supine or prone) on a stretcher by gentle wrist and ankle bandages. The stretcher is placed upon a fulcrum, such as a sawhorse, if handy; if not, in a simple loop of rope secured overhead. Rocking is started, head and feet alternately down about 50 degrees, a complete seesaw every four or five seconds. British Surgeon Lieut. G. H. Gibbens suggests in the British Medical Journal: "It helps some people if they hum a tango or a slow tune, moving the stretcher at the beginning...
...that time, however, one of the cagiest men in one of the cooniest communities in the U.S. had seen Miss Bergman's Intermezzo. He usually got what he was after; and he was determined to get her. While calm Miss Bergman sat in Stockholm flicking off her wrist offers which nearly every actress in Europe would have rolled over and begged for, she reckoned without David O. Selznick. In that failure of reckoning began a sort of duel, and a sort of wooing, as rare in Hollywood as victorious talent...
...publisher. Applying for restoration of the Gazette's mailing privilege (revoked for lewdness), the publisher testified that Walker had objected to the magazine's dice advertisements because he once bought a pair to entertain friends at home, took all the money with an innocent twist of the wrist, and later discovered that one of the dice was loaded. From an assistant to Postmaster General Walker, the press got the pained retort that this was ridiculous-the only dice he had ever owned had come with parchesi and backgammon sets...
...acquaintence Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov so admired Joe Davies' shockproof, water proof wrist watch that Davies' immediately gave it to him. The Marshal, in return, presented Joe Davies with his own, quite ordinary timepiece, which Joe Davies said he would give to his grandson...