Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dreamboat in Port. The new rich used their money to buy things that were once undreamed-of luxuries. They pushed jewelry sales to 26% above last year's: in Pensacola, Fla., a plasterer walked into a tony jewelry shop, counted out $100 for a diamond wrist watch; next day his wife returned with the watch and another $50 for a better...
Howie Hodgson, out so far because of a bad wrist, will break into the lineup for the first time as catcher. Hoss Hamlen moves out from behind the plate and will take over first base, pushing George Casey out to left field...
...after less than two months. The controller got a $7,500 salary; with bonuses made $25,153.32 in 1941. Other employe bonuses, records showed, added up to some $600,000. Mr. Jack held monthly banquets, gave double-time pay for Saturdays. Last Christmas everyone got a wrist watch, a $2,500 insurance policy, and cash presents ranging from...
...tail of his plane. Hastey stayed with the tumbling wreck for nearly a mile, then bailed out. To give the Japs the least possible chance of potting him as he floated down, he decided to fall another two miles before opening his parachute. Meanwhile he took off his wrist watch, which had been jarred loose, and put it in his pocket; remembered a passage in his textbook which said that in a free fall the sensation is one of floating rather than falling. "Nuts," reflected Pilot Hastey, "I can feel myself falling now and it's terrific...
Marion Sommer started life in middle-class Vienna; toured Germany as a violinist until she ruined her wrist in a train wreck; helped get out a Socialist news paper in South Germany until the outbreak of World War I; took lovers, of whom the best one fell in Belgium; befriended a lonely archduchess and nursed and under-ate throughout the war; had two children, one by a man who was not her husband; beheld and took part in the miseries of German post-war democracy; was sent to Soviet Russia as a skillful toymaker and there married a U.S. industrialist...