Word: blobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When there is a lack of cheaper free sensation-fodder for newspaper presses, how large a sum is it good business to pay for a really choice blob of pedigreed scandal...
...darkest exhibit was Mol-lienisia slenops from Louisiana, a two-inch blob of midnight. The brighest was Platypoecilus rubra from the West Indies, deep-burning vermilion and red gold...
...first stomach. This was her rumen or paunch, where she was storing up her freshly swallowed fodder. Later, when these annoying men departed, she would regurgitate a large fistful and chew it at contented leisure, mixing it with saliva, so that it would slide down, a warm and pleasant blob of food, into her second stomach. This was her reticulum, her honeycomb stomach, which some day will be used for honeycomb tripe. (The rumen constitutes ordinary tripe.) From the reticulum the food would pass through the third (omasum, bullock tripe) and fourth (abomasum, where milk-curdling rennet is manufactured) stomachs...
...last month a small young woman whose chest expansion exceeds that of mighty Jack Demp-sey- traveled from city to city in the U. S. Every night but Sunday she performed a strange rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a blob of wax, placed it on the bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone...
Syracuse knew that Colgate was no soft soap. Colgate was aware that Syracuse could not lightly be brushed aside. Before they met, each-like a mountaineer's beard-had never been trimmed. After a number of close shaves, Eddie Tryon, "hardest blob in Colgate's tube," squirmed through left tackle, trickled 28 yards for a touchdown. Others followed. Score: Colgate 19, Syracuse...