Word: fisting
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...loudly threatened to thrash each other. On three occasions the Speaker, portly M. Edouard Herriot, was unable to get order by ringing his bell, had to suspend the session by the classic French gesture of clapping on his silk hat and waddling out. Twenty Communist Deputies rushed in a fist-shaking, hoarse-shouting phalanx toward the centre of the Chamber, and only concerted efforts by all the sergeants-at-arms checked their assault. In the Senate it was the duty of former Premier Blum, since he is now Vice-Premier, to read the declaration of policy of the Chautemps Cabinet...
...Washington stormed white-thatched James A. Emery, general counselor for the National Association of Manufacturers. Fist clenched, he damned the bill as unconstitutional, cumbersome and certain to hoist consumer prices. "The vast and ambiguous . . . ocean of authority . . . granted to a board of five . . . will obliterate the last vestige of local self-government." What the country really needed from Congress, he said, was legislation to fasten some responsibility upon labor unions...
...Munich after services some priests led their congregations out to defy the noisy Hitler Youth. Fist fights ensued, ten more priests were bundled into jail. In Cologne 60,000 Catholics thronged the Cathedral Square, wildly cheered Cologne's anti-Nazi Archbishop, Joseph Cardinal Schulte...
...bean balls were thrown purposely by famed Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals at members of the New York Giants in St. Louis last fortnight to express his indignation over an umpire's decision. The Dean bean balls resulted in a free-for-all fist light on the field, fines of $50 each for Pitcher Dean and Outfielder Jimmy Ripple of the Giants...
...heat of a new idea, its practical merit quickly falls away leaving only a this shell of theatrics. For those who want to utilize their money in saving life and salving pain, there are many ways in which $1500 could be used much more economically. In the fist place, it could be turned over to the Red Cross and other veteran organizations now at work for both sides in Spain and who could put the money to its most efficient use. Or better still, it could be given to the multitude due of American charities engaged in relieving suffering just...