Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeating the new in cantation "Edwardian or earlier," ruffled through their style notebooks to report : ¶ Waistlines are definitely stabilized at the level of the "natural waist" which must and will be emphasized by corsets. Stylists and corsetmen agree that there will be no wasp-waist pinching but high-bosomed, hourglass effects achieved by elastic sheaths, tight perhaps but with few corset bones or lacings. ¶ Daytime necklines are either modest V's or 'tend high and round with variations such as mannish stocks and severe, up standing Chinese collars. Necklines for evening dip to bareback and bosom...
...Harriman bank failed to open after the banking holiday and Banker Harriman, arrested on the charge of having falsified his bank's books, was arraigned in court on a stretcher. In May 1933, Banker Harriman, having escaped from a sanitarium to suburban Long Island, futilely pinked his bosom with a butcher knife. Last week Banker Harriman, wearing a grey suit and a Panama hat, walked into court to stand trial...
...conviction and intensity that the soul of the German listener is uplifted and soars in joy. "Germany can no longer be ranked as a second class power!" cries Hitler. "Be proud of Germany!" shouts Dr. Goebbels with his curious but effective gesture of clenching both fists close to his bosom as though about to tear his chest. "Be proud of a Fatherland for which millions sacrificed their lives! Strike a rogue more than once! Believe in the future-then only can you be a victor!" Profoundly the resurgent German does believe in the Fatherland's future and nothing helps...
...arrogance in Japan's foreign policy which even Mr. Kawakami's skill can not explain away. The present book deals also with the structure and problems of the new government of Manchoukuo, and expresses the pious hope that Chinese reorganization will soon permit the Manchurians to return to the bosom of a really national Chinese state. In all of which, we are left to assume, disinterested Japan would happily concur, with dulcet twitterings from above. But the book is, in the main, a capable presentation of the enlightened Japanese view, vastly more convincing than Dr. Shei's pamphleteering attempts...
According to present standards, the acting is overdone; anger is portrayed by swelling of the bosom, stamping of the feet, and vigorous twirling of the moustache, which may be all right for the movies, but is strange to Harvard Square. In spite of that, however, Eisenstein's utilizing water scenes, like a mountain stream immediately after the breaking up of a log jam, the pounding of surf over a breakwater, or the moon rising through ships' rigging over the mist of motionless, oily seas, as symbolic of the feeling of the Russian peasantry, gives the picture an appeal...