Word: wrists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the life of the Sapiro-Ford trial the following events were chronicled: Henry Ford was badly battered in an automobile accident. Stuart Hanley, lawyer for Mr. Ford, suffered a back strain. Two of Aaron Sapiro's children came down with scarlet fever. Milton Sapiro (brother) splintered a wrist in another automobile crash. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, chief counsel for Mr. Ford, went to the Henry Ford hospital with an acute attack of gastrointestinal trouble. ... Superstitious observers whispered that the trial was hoodooed...
...right wrist having recovered from lameness, the President threw a white baseball to Tristram Speaker to open the season for the Washington nine. Mrs. Coolidge wore a green hat, a green coat...
...President appeared in his office with his right wrist swollen, bandaged. Cause: undefined and perhaps undefinable*. . . . He watched workmen on the roof of the White House, suddenly retreated eight yards. Cause: a crane dangling lumber above his head. . . . Mrs. Coolidge wore a green scarf. Cause: St. Patrick...
Hubbard mentioned in his charges that Princeton players dislocated Maher's wrist in the 1922 Harvard-Princeton Freshman game. Maher refused to either affirm or deny the act yesterday...
...former Harvard tackle posts Princeton as guilty of "dirty" foot ball in two games in which he took part. He makes ten "accusations" against the Princeton "football system." In most of them he names Harvard players who, he says, had a leg broken, or knees "badly twisted," or a wrist dislocated, or were otherwise disabled by a foul play. One of his charges is that "Princeton tackles, coming in under kicks, often do not try to block punts, but with high, powerful knee action rough up the defending halfback". Much of Hubbard's evidence must be hearsay. When the players...