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...describes the world in terms of his own body: mouth of a river, brow of a hill, bosom of the sea. But in naming the interior of his body, man reverses the process and borrows from the outside world, e.g., eardrums, windpipes, bowels (Lat., botellus, small sausage), clavicle (Lat., clavicula, a small key), tonsils (Lat., tonsillae, shaped like stakes...
...even more low-brow, down-and-out entertainment, the seasonal over-flowing of musical comedies should not be overlooked. From the Cape working their way westward, professionals, hacks, and just plain hams tiptoe through the tulips, sweetly and lightly...
When Lee Ward departed in a chill, amiable Chris Finkbeiner took the courthouse steps, wrinkled his brow, thrust hands deep in his pockets and began: "You know, this is my first talk in a county square, and I brought my wife and family to watch over me while I give this first courthouse-square speech here in Warren. I want to be Governor and I'm willing to work at it. Now folks, Mama got kinda excited and she lost one of her gloves. Any of you find it, why I'd appreciate it kindly...
...happen to glance up at the wall and check your Playmate-of-the-Month tri-color calendar, you'll notice that it's May--reading period time. And if the Metaphysical Poets, the Peace of Westphalia, and Central Kitchen dietetics have furrowed your brow, and you feel you need a final fling at debauchery before the reckoning--try a day of escape at the Boston flicks...
...deal gives Curtis a solid lodgment in the prospering field of shelter magazines. Catering to the middle-brow homebody and thriving on the postwar trend to do-it-yourself, American Home has picked up 800,000 new readers over the past ten years. The Meredith Publishing Co.'s Better Homes and Gardens has done even better, adding 1,200,000 readers in ten years to reach a circulation of 4,379,237. In advertising revenue Better Homes now ranks sixth among all national magazines, American Home a solid 16th...