Word: posterior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant's cat met severe injury in its posterior quarters last night. No one seemed to know how the cat weathered the injury or how the accident occurred...
...victim Handsome Dan IV. English bulldog mascot of the Yale football team, rallied sharply late last night, and veterinarian Dr. S. Johnes gave the dog an even chance to pull through. Suffering from a serious paralysis of his posterior extremities, Dan was given slight hope in earlier dispatches from New Haven...
Twilight of Man is illustrated with Hooton's own drawings, one of which thoroughly illustrates the phenomenon of steatopygia - an accumulation of fat on the posterior - which appears in the females of some primitive human types, and which probably helped some women of the Glacial Period to keep warm when skimpier males crowded them from the fire. Hooton "apologizes" for his drawings thus: "Amateur illustration by an author is like profanity in conversation. It probably serves no useful purpose and certainly is shocking and objectionable to many, but the perpetrator enjoys...
...French. In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license. Famous caricatures in the show included Isaac Cruikshank's credited Belly Piece Shop in which various court ladies of marked posterior inflation are being fitted to boot with anterior pads labeled one, two, four, six and nine months...
...down to a fit 170, the better to fight his enemies. Encased in heavy pants, rubber vest, rubber coat, two sweaters, he sweats his way around the University of Washington track every morning at 6 o'clock , flexes the Beck muscles on a rowing machine, subjects the Beck posterior to an electric belt...