Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Julia M. Place, a real estate agent, drove one of her clients last Memorial Day. She had heard that the house was for rent. She rang the doorbell, waited. When no one came she went around to the back yard, found a black-haired young man stripped to the waist bending over a bonfire. He said his name was Lamson and that he owned the house. ''There was nothing unusual in his actions or speech," said Mrs. Place afterwards. "He asked me to come to the front door. I called Mrs. Rass. and we waited a minute...
...expressing delight that her Mae West party galvanized Paris stylists into swift, devastating action. After the openings last week alert buyers, repeating the new in cantation "Edwardian or earlier," ruffled through their style notebooks to report : ¶ Waistlines are definitely stabilized at the level of the "natural waist" which must and will be emphasized by corsets. Stylists and corsetmen agree that there will be no wasp-waist pinching but high-bosomed, hourglass effects achieved by elastic sheaths, tight perhaps but with few corset bones or lacings. ¶ Daytime necklines are either modest V's or 'tend high...
...Seattle, Wash., with only the waist-swung dollar watch and gap-toothed grin missing, Deri Erickson marched with his goat in a children's pet parade, made spectators gasp at his resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi...
...Governor so I can enforce it." The crowd cheered lustily. Later "C. N." Haskell was elected the State's first Governor and "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, who also thought the constitution was his, was chosen first Speaker of the Legislature. Slinging a belt and a six-shooter around his waist, Governor Haskell took office...
...termites are commonly called "white ants." But they are not ants and are not always white. Termites maybe readily distinguished from ants by the absence of a '"waist" or constriction where abdomen joins thorax. They look more like tiny cockroaches, but they have a social organization antlike in its complexity...