Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course strip to the waist while she, Alice, sat in the balcony. This mushy apocryphal tale will be "scotched" by the writer in the proper place and was evidently taken and elaborated from another author who has, or will, also correct it and has written me acknowledging his error. But to me this is ridiculously inaccurate...
Primarily "just history," The Old-Time Saloon is written with serious humor, earmarked here & there as Ade-made. With a crocodile tear in his eye, Author Ade describes an oldtime Kentucky belle: "You could span her waist with your two hands but she couldn't sit down in a tub." He recounts the feat of Tom Heath, who was ejected from an Irish saloon on St. Patrick's Day "because he ate the shamrocks on the bar, thinking they were watercress...
...backs of mirrors); of "extreme debility;" in Kingston. Surrey, England. A recluse for the last two years, Professor Reid lived in a cold, decaying mansion on milk and well-water, saw no one, was found in a stupor, his hair straggling to his shoulders, his beard to his waist...
...autobiography is Roosevelt's first marriage. As a junior at Harvard he first met pretty, prim Alice Lee of Chestnut Hill, Mass. His courtship like everything else he did was impetuous. He made the poor girl sit in the gymnasium balcony at Cambridge while he, stripped to the waist fought hard but vainly to win the college lightweight boxing championship. Fits of despair sent him moping to the woods whence he was retrieved by worried relatives. Theodore and Alice were married in Brookline four months after his graduation (Oct. 27, 1880). They traveled abroad. He got into politics, went...
...Colchester, Edward of Wales reviewed the First Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, of which he is Colonel-in-Chief, last week. With buttons shined and a large sabre strapped to waist, he handed newly embroidered standards to two kneeling subalterns while the drums rolled. After these ceremonies he adjourned to the Town Hall to sup oysters at Colchester's annual Oyster Feast...