Word: clenching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gather as many specimens as possible of the rare and valuable tree snail was the purpose of our trip," declared W. J. Clench, Curator of Mollusks at the Peabody Museum, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter, on his return from an expedition of over a month into the Everglade region of Florida...
...perhaps sufficient to enable Mr. Churchill to face the voters at the forthcoming election with his budget not too precariously balanced. As his wishes were flouted by his own colleagues the Chancellor, seated grimly on the Treasury Bench, grew first pink and then red with rage, was seen to clench and unclench several times his large and sinewy hands...
...with some amusement that the world saw Ramsey MacDonald; first Labour Prime Minister, pay his respect to the King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and Emperor of India as dutifully as ever did Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Wellington, or Lord North. It probably made Soviet ministers throw bombs, clench their teeth, bristle their whiskers and evince other characteristically Russian signs of displeasure. It reassured conservative England; at least radical viewpoints did not interfere with good taste...
William James Clench, of Dorchester...