Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relax in the middle of a match without lowering his game. Tennis fans consider him the smartest, nearest thing to a veteran in the present crop of headliners. He doesn't hit very hard, but he hits for the openings. He has a fine, quick wrist that enables him to mask the direction of a shot until the last moment...
...Elaborate high-signs involving music, spilt Cointreau, inverted wrist watches, roses...
...Jock's behalf a prison doctor testified that his right side was paralyzed, that he had two bones missing from his right wrist. The doctor doubted that he would have been able to do any climbing...
...returned his Legion of Honor ribbon to France, explained to Marshal Henri Petain: ". . . Under your recreant Government it has lost its value." ∙∙ Eighty-four-year-old Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe) had a Cellophane window put in her glove so as not to hide her diamond wrist watch...
Southwest's President Leland Hayward, cinema agent, TWA director and husband of twinkling Margaret Sullavan, gave each man a silver wrist tag. Stockholder Brian Aherne flew in in his Fairchild to see the fun. Stockholder Hoagie Carmichael thumped the piano in the canteen...