Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kept in Cambridge by the firm hand of the Hyglene Department, a group of six students played Santa Claus with one another in Stillman infirmary during the holidays...
...other hand, maybe Mickey was honestly trying to provide some barn-door proof of the far-and-wide presence of Communism, so that the common man could see and beware accordingly. It is well known around Kerry Corner that the guiding drive in his life--next to his pride in his dozen-odd strapping children and in his prosperous trucking business--is a very real and sincere, if slightly confused, hatred of Communism. The resolution is certainly couched in no niggardly terms, and Mickey very probably meant it when he said, "WHEREAS: Communism is the world's greatest curse today...
...insanity. One 20-year-old patient, with a diseased hypothalamus, "sometimes on laughing . . . experiences a sensation of darkness coming from the back to the front of the head, followed by a sudden falling. . . . She also has periods of enforced immobilization during which she can't lift a hand by will, nor move a foot, nor speak. Emotion, triggering morbid sleep, put one of my patients in an impossible position when he suddenly slept with snores on kissing a girl in a taxicab...
...went the big, capable hand of Leon Henderson. Competitive bidding, said he, would be discussed later. Harold Stanley persisted, for well he knew that when TNEC gets into competitive bidding, such insurgents as Cyrus Eaton and Alleghany Corp.'s unruly Bob Young may get the first say, put Morgan Stanley & Co. on the defensive with tail-end statements in news stories...
...opened backstage in a gaslit provincial vaudeville theatre, with performers peeping at a newborn babe lying in a trunk. "Whose brat is that?" a woman asks, is answered "That's Jerry and Helen Cohan's boy." Suddenly, out of the trunk rises a tiny hand waving a tiny flag...