Word: wrists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Arrachart, famed French airman, stepped from his plane at a Paris flying field and turned a stiffened wrist to see the face of his watch. Other officers compared their time to his, excitedly contradicted him. He was just on time, they said. His confidence restored, the Captain pushed his way through the crowd on the landing field. He had just flown around Europe in 39 hr., 15 min. His schedule, which he adhered to with monotonous efficiency, began with breakfast in Paris on Monday, then...
...lies; kept it out of the briars and birchwoods along the boundaries; evaded the gullies near the clubhouse; holed his putts on the bleached, worm-ridden greens. Against him played strapping André Gobert, onetime French Davis Cup (tennis) player. André is a newcomer to golf, stiff of wrist, mathematical with his backswing, monstrously strong at long shots; but he needs his gracious, white- toothed smile for such opponents as Monsieur Vagliano. The latter vanquished André, 6 and 4 in 36 holes, became French Amateur Champion. U. S. contestants who reached the third round: C. E. Van Vleck...
...passion, that live design can give. . . . I've a great deal of sympathy with the people who hate the Epstein sample. Why should not these people have a sanctuary all to themselves? ... If Fay Compton or Gladys Cooper would pose as Rima with a stuffed pigeon on each wrist, the artist who touches up the photosculpture could throw in a few swallows...
...complements, while his body-the sum of their two right angles-remained a straight line that bounded from point to point of an oblong parallelogram of green turf, other factor of this geometric contes was Manuel Alonso, the Spaniard, whose returns went into the net, over the baseline, whose wrist played him false so that Tilden defeated him with ease, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1, winning the New England Tennis Championship...
...succeeding days, the Prince's right hand was in great demand and as a result he was inconvenienced by a slightly sprained wrist...