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...does a bit of broken field running through the massed forces of the law. Powell's gestures seem modeled on those of a stage tumbler. He frequently washes his hands in air, as though drying them on an imaginary handkerchief. He clicks his heels and bows from the waist. All this is apparently to indicate a "high state of civilization in Europe." The conversation reaches what is intended as a climax in his account of a woman he robbed: "The lady stood beside me. The Prince of Wales was announced. I could have removed her dress...
...both competitive and health exercises. One result is competent medical opinion that if we can give school children spiked running shoes and a place to practice . . . 80% of leg troubles will be straightened out. . . . Simple Delsarte exercises will do much the same thing for the body above the waist line. . . . They will learn the lessons of fairness of the sports field. I think a generation so trained will carry into business some moral principles...
...total of 151 was extraordinary over the Saunton Club's "joke" course. It is built over sand dunes with eccentrically narrow fairways and little slanted postage-stamp greens. The holes are not long but are often blind. The hazards are waist-high heather, bogs, bulrushes, traps like sand quarries, shore winds...
...deplore the law compelling me to fine young men for the natural and healthy act of rolling down their bathing suits to the waist," declared Judge Stafford. "The day is coming when Australians will regard a loin cloth a sufficient covering and when young men will be proud to display fine, manly, suntanned figures...
...still dangling beneath her. The heat grew oppressive. A yell went up as the lump at the end of the cable showed life. Sailor Charles ("Bud") Cowart had straddled a toggle above the ring at the end of the cable, was taking two bowline hitches about his waist. Several times' Lieut. Commander Rosendahl maneuvered the tossing ship toward earth, but fearing that Sailor Cowart would be bashed to death, soared again. Firemen stretched nets to try to catch him if he fell...