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...morning that he had the 2,500 h.p. Blue Bird towed to the end of the course, 40 yd. wide and nine miles long with the measured mile in the centre, the sand was still rough and strewn with shells. Sir Malcolm's left wrist, sprained on the gearshift in a 240-m.p.h. trial spin last fortnight, was still sore. A thin dangerous haze had not entirely disappeared when Sir Malcolm decided he could wait no longer...
...family game in England, British women have played more, now play better than Americans. Practicing against men has taught them that the most effective shots are not necessarily the swiftest, that the spindling bat should be controlled not with the forearm, like a tennis racquet, but with the wrist...
Next it was ABC's turn. Last week in the Almendares district of Havana two U. S. tourists discovered the body of Policeman Francisco Rafael Cepero with his ear cut off, his throat slashed, a bullet in his temple. Tied to his right wrist was a blue tag inscribed: "The ABC will mete out this death to all long-tongued persons." Long-tongued Cepero's crime had been to shout a warning to Chief of Police Major Arsenic Ortiz (who got his present job after being accused with two others of 44 political murders in Santiago) when three...
...Speaker of the House bangs out his will with a mallet-like gavel swung by the wrist and forearm. He is privileged to take the floor and join in legislative debate at will. He must vote to break a tie and may vote whenever else he chooses. As leader of the House majority he picks the legislation he wants brought up. Members speak only at his grace. During the last six days of a session his power to recognize a motion to suspend the rules makes him an absolute dictator of House procedure...
Over the Exhibition the Guardian glowed: "The surprising bicycle 'boom' of the last 18 months is shown here in all its glory, from midget machines to luxurious tandems with no fewer than eight gears which can be changed with a flick of the wrist while the cyclists are actually pedaling. There is thus no need on these machines to freewheel while slipping into another gear...