Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naked arm slid around her waist and drew her against his bare, grease-smeared torso. With his other hand he seized her by the hair, pulled her head back and kissed her roughly on the mouth...
Wearing a purple-piped shirt open to the waist. St. Francis Robb said, "I'm a revolter. When you have a shirt cut as low as that, you have to have something in back of it, so I wear a white vest under it. Then I put a . . . purple silk sash about my waist. The women all fall in love with it at once and it is the envy...
...decorated with lobsters and a doll's head, representing necrophilia, which Mme Dali herself explained as "excessive fondness for dead bodies." Artist Dali wore a glass case on his chest containing a brassiere. Some of the men wore tail coats, no trousers. One woman came naked from the waist up, was hastily removed. Wrote society reporters: "It was all cockeyed, terribly amusing and just about the most sophisticated party of the year." Said Mme Dali: "It was an experiment to see how far the American people would respond to a chance to express their own dreams. Only a dozen...
Some fishermen were hired to hack the flesh away with knives. Progress was slow. Day followed dreary winter day. A storm blew up, covered beach and carcass with a brawling smother of surf. Toiling waist-deep in the icy water, Andrews and Clark made fast the carcass as best they could. When the weather cleared the precious remains were finally found buried deep in the sand...
...Prince of WALES'S morning-dress is either a chestnut-brown, or a bottle-green cloth coat, with a fancy-stripe waistcoat, and light stone-colour musquito pantaloons. The coat is made short in the waist and the skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope...