writer's cramp
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Then in middle age, he got writer's cramp.
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Newspapers reported that Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, prolific humorist and short story writer, was down with writer's cramp in San Francisco, had to stop work on his memoirs.
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"I go to bed with writer's cramp," Annie jokes, "from talking too much."
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In Amersham, England, the city magistrate court was forced to adjourn temporarily when Court Clerk A. Ferguson got writer's cramp.
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But Jim hadn’t been in the office plugging away at the letters for a month before he had the writer’s cramp, and began nosing around again.
From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by Lorimer, George Horace
