Word: breasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When he first went to Manhattan, penny-in-the-slot peep-shows were his delight until he discovered the more compelling joys of the burlesque theatre. He had other eccentricities: he always ar ranged his knife and fork on his plate so that they should not point at his breast, was forever washing his hands, could not bear anything made of cotton. It still sets his teeth on edge to think of wiping his mouth with a napkin; he does it with the back of his hand...
From your cold breast your rigid hand...
...such pictures as King Kong Hollywood has devised automatons capable of more complex movements than Alpha, but never one that responded to the human voice. Anxious to avoid any suspicion of ventriloquism or of a hidden assistant pushing control buttons, Professor May removed the robot's breast plate, disclosing a mechanism like the interior of an ordinary radio. Publicly he explained that Alpha's repertory of answers consisted of 20 or 30 recordings on wax cylinders, as in oldtime phonographs, which were run off in the control cabinets and reproduced from the loud speaker in the robot...
Ninth Floor. Votes-for-women is no longer an issue, but the flame of feminism burns as high as ever in Helen Reid's compact breast. Proud is she that no other metropolitan newspaper employs as many female executives. There are Mrs. Helen W. Leavitt, assistant advertising manager; Elsa Lang, promotion director; Esther Kimmel in charge of the Home Economics Department; Books Editor Irita Van Doren; Mary Day Winn, assistant fiction editor; Book Critic Isabel Paterson. And most important, presiding on the ninth floor, Marie Mattingly Meloney...
...fitted out for an Amazonian expedition. He was. There were thirty-one heads on board in case head-hunters were encountered; there was a bolt of bright blue gingham for exchange purposes, and, best of all, a mandolin player who could soothe the savage breast if the savage breast got savage...