Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of Frank Fielding, Radio Keith Orpheum's traveling usher, who is on his feet all but two hours each day and is one of six survivors in the International Collegiate Endurance Contest. Clothed in a light silk shirt, and white duck trousers, with a blue sash about his waist, the 19-year old Californian student appeared at 14 Plympton Street and told of the gruelling grind which hope of sharing in a $70,000 award is inducing him to continue until April...
...life. His dances with swords and wands possessed an extraordinarily feline continuity of movement. His falsetto was harsh but expressive. Watching his gait, his play with hands and voluminous sleeves, his tender coquetry, you could understand why Chinese poets have written panegyrics about his eye, smile, shoulder, even his waist...
...bustling little city of Temesvar, last week, one Mme. Borugsch, convicted of the murder of one Anna Lowinal, rival in love, was stripped to the waist, lashed 60 times with cat-o'-nine-tails till her back was raw as a beefsteak. Applauded the French Echo de Paris...