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...overalls has among its beauties those of a blueprint: and they are a map of a working man." After a while "the edges of the thigh pockets become stretched and lie open, fluted, like the gills of a fish. . . . The texture and the color change in union, by sweat, sun, laundering . . . into a region and scale of blues, subtle, delicious, and deft beyond what I have ever seen elsewhere approached. . . . [The shirt] breaks like snow, and is stitched and patched . . . and stitches and patches are manifolded upon the stitches and patches, and more on these, so that at length...
From onetime richest Macfadden magazine, Physical Culture had come gradually to smell of must and stale sweat. Its newsstand circulation fell to a senile 36,156, the smallest in the Macfadden tribe. But Oldster Macfadden, stubborn and misty-eyed, always remembered that Physical Culture 42 years ago started him on his climb to fortune, publicized him as a muscle messiah. As long as he had the say he flatly refused to turn it into a beauty magazine...
Last week the Argentine Foreign Ministry's legal adviser decided that Gestapo-man Sandstede was not entitled to diplomatic immunity. Reason: he was also employed by a Buenos Aires shipping company. This decision was prematurely published by La NaciÓn and Gottfried Sandstede went into a sweat...
...completed a course in embalming prior to her marriage. Skelton has never forgotten his friends' warnings that if he married her she could easily slit him open while he slept, pump him full of embalming fluid. Says he: "To this day I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat. . . . I have to go out of the room when she slices bread...
...neuroses in people with long-standing ailments. For instance, a man with anemia who fought fires all night was too tired to sleep. He was quiet, controlled, somewhat despondent. At a shelter he was given rest, food and drink. Immediately he began to tremble, broke out in a cold sweat, groaned and paced the floor...