Word: shouldered
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...trotters on odd scraps of paper. Later, as a husky moving-man, he used to ask for the job of crating people's paintings, so he could touch and study the oils. When a German sniper's dumdum bullet ploughed out a big hunk of his right shoulder in October 1918, after he had served 14 months in front-line trenches with his Negro National Guard company, Horace Pippin was invalided home as a total disability. But still he kept wanting to paint. Unable to raise his right hand to shoulder level, he propped it up with...
...Unfortunately for the editor who counted Rear-Admiral Nicholson's stars, there were two on each shoulder...
Oklahoma breeds big, tough, silent men with hearts of gold-some good, some bad, some eccentric-but always men. In Oklahoma's heritage of oil, Indians, covered wagons, shoulder-holsters, pellagra, dust, drought and Bad Lands, there is no place for sissies. Sooners* will certainly not stand for sissies in their Governor's Mansion. Oklahoma Governors must be strong men to get elected, stronger to survive. (Of Oklahoma's eleven Governors, five were targets for impeachment by the ever-rambunctious Legislature...
...Hayes went on the stage at five. From child parts to Little Lord Fauntleroy to Pollyanna to the flapper in Clarence, on to the big roles of her mature years, Helen moved steadily forward-and her mother with her. Whenever Helen signed a contract, her mother leaned over her shoulder. Whenever Helen was on stage, her mother stood in the wings. Mother was even privy to the "snares" Helen laid to catch her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur...
...group, five men and their wives. They're laughing. In the middle, dominating, a head taller than his fellows, stands a first lieutenant, decorated for bravery in China, powerful build, rugged angled faces, flashing smile, thick black hair. On his shoulder perches his little son. Beside him hovers his wife, shyly watching...