Word: torsos
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...true of many Mexicans, the seat of Avila Camacho's attraction is his eyes. They are brown and full of comradely humor. His body is vaguely reminiscent of various ripe fruits-his face of a pear, his torso of a papaya. Last week the sophisticated began calling him El Buchudo, he of the double chin. Pudgy though he is, Avila Camacho keeps himself in good condition, mostly by riding and walking. A Mexican is nothing if he cannot make himself look like part of a horse. Avila Camacho's "highschool" horse Pavo (Peacock) went through his dance steps...
Studies made of fathers and sons who have both gone through Harvard show that there has been an average gain in height of 3.5 centimeters and in weight of over ten pounds. With respect to the torso much greater gains in length were registered by the abdomen than by the chest, Dr. Seltzer stated. Although greater appreciation of the art of eating might be suspected as an explanation for this phenomenon, Dr. Seltzer was unwilling to hazard an analysis...
...worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan." They also gang up on a torso-rolling lady of the cast with the suggestion: "When you get that wound up, set it for seven...
When it came to corsets, men feared the worst, hearing tell of a new outline called the "long torso." This sounded like a threat to return to the hideous, bag-shaped style of the '20s, when theflour-sack dress flourished and the straight line conquered all. But it seemed last week that the "long torso," alias the "extended waistline," was just another false alarm. Even the stylists could not make sense of it. Wrote Carmel Snow, in Harper's Bazaar: "It's not a lower waistline, or a higher waistline. It starts exactly at its natural, rightful...