Word: wrists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pachmann has invented a new technique of piano playing, a technique the characteristic feature of which is a rigidly stiff wrist. He says that until he had reached the age of 70, what he played was trash, as are trash the present performances of other pianists, who use the old technique. De Pachmann embarks upon an extended tour of the U. S. It will be interesting to see how public and critics respond to pragmatic demonstrations of the new technique, which the pianist protagonizes with such spirited phrases...
Vincent Richards, third ranking tennis player in the U. S.: "At Fifth Avenue and 37th St., Manhattan, my taxi skidded into a pole, throwing me through the window. An eight-stitch cut on the wrist and minor head cuts necessitated my staying out of tournament play for several days...
English blue noses are in the air. The nasal elevation is the result of 'certain press photographs of women tennis players in action. The pictures illustrate with unconscious frankness the calf and knee as well as the racket and wrist combining in the fine gesture of the forehand drive...
...King Albert: "As my mount galloped about the Chateau de Laequen, he caught his foot in a hole and was thrown, with the result that a bone in my wrist was broken...
...reason for this action was not that Hubbard would be physically unfit for the four-mile test, for the doctors' have expressed themselves as optimistic over the healing of his wrist. It is felt, however, that it is now too late to make any change, and that it will be for the interest of the crew to continue rowing in the same order as was announced after Hubbard's injury. The combination, with A. L. Hobson '24 in at 5, is working very smoothly and Coach Muller with-the Yale contest only one week off, is against making any shift...