Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suit has a head and body of steel, with grotesque protuberances for eyes and something that looks like a nose. Of rubber reinforced by interwoven copper strips, the arms and legs become flexible when subjected to high underwater pressure. The two parts of the suit join at the waist instead of around the neck. The diver goes down without an airhose, carries an oxygen bottle, a respirator, caustic soda to absorb carbon dioxide. Aboard the Terminal last week this fantastic diving suit was called "Eleanor...
...bathysphere junkets for five years. Twenty-five years before that she was born in Suffern, N. Y. Putting aside dolls at an early age, she shortly began dissecting snakes, toads and moles, producing grotesque breeds of chickens. She explored stream bottoms by going under with rocks roped to her waist, a long glass tube to breathe through. Graduated from Connecticut College for Women, she conducted a thrill-hungry matron through the wilds of British Guiana, returned to Manhattan for an M. A. in zoology at Columbia. After showing the Rockefeller Institute's famed Alexis Carrel that she was steady-fingered...
Tweeds have come off the golf course into the drawing room, are now correct for tea. Reason: the informal shirt waist has been supplanted by blouses of stiff velvet, chenille, soft duvetyn...
...General Göring appeared in a uniform of snow white silk from head to feet. Around his waist was a broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
Brazil's Dillinger was somewhat more striking in appearance than his U. S. prototype. He wrore a bright red sombrero, glittering horn-rimmed spectacles and a gold & silver studded cartridge belt that held four rows of cartridges and was too wide for him ever to bend at the waist...