Word: waisted
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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...
...mystery of the death of King Albert. . . . 'Albert did not die as the result of an 'alpine accident,' believe me, I know the facts. ... The story of Albert's death was issued in Belgium before he was dead. A man with a rope around his waist does not go climbing by himself. ... In other words he was tapped on the back of the head. . . . The facts are that King Albert was opposed to war. He would not play any part in the deviltry of France in conspiring for war against defenseless Germany...
...like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit like the swan; She's jimp about the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span. . . . Last week in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Captain Reginald Houldsworth was married to Margaret May Laurie, Annie Laurie's great-great-great-great-great-great niece. The bride was given away by her uncle, Sir Wilfrid Laurie, who lives in Maxwelton House where Annie was born...