Word: calfing
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...Chicago, Barry Stephens, an artists' agent who has looked at legs long enough to tell one Radio City Rockette from another, called a turn: "The scrawny, thin leg is out. A fuller calf and a longer thigh is the trend, and we men see a return to the 'beef trusters.' " Notable among his fuller-calfed, longer-thighed legs: Alice Faye's, Ann Miller's, Betty Grable's. Marlene Dietrich's? "Too skinny...
Georgia was getting more publicity than a two-headed calf-and seemed to suffer from the same ailments which harass such a rare beast. Each of Georgia's heads wanted to go in a different direction. Each mooed incessantly. Each tried to butt the other out of the feedbox. Meanwhile, the animal proper did not seem able to eat, walk or cough up its cud, but simply stood disconsolately, enduring violent disturbances of the fourth stomach...
From the soldier's abdomen, the surgeons grafted tissue to give the hand form. From his foot they got tendons (which the foot could get along without), from his thigh, slippery tissue for the tendons to slide on; from his calf, sections of nerve; from his hip, a piece of flank bone. Transplanted, these body materials in a few weeks gave the soldier a new hand, not perfect, but good enough to do carpentry with...
...also made a lot of people indignant and unhappy; it made the Rev. A. Powell Davies, Unitarian pastor of a fashionable Washington church (TIME, Oct. 7), as angry as Moses denouncing the golden calf's idolaters. Brandishing a clipping from his pulpit last Sunday, the Rev. Mr. Davies thundered...
...cotton sweater and plaid shirt), the Duchess in what she helpfully described to some 50 welcoming reporters and cameramen as "a blue wool suit with a red wool jersey, a striped silk hat-I guess that's what you call it-with a veil, and a black box calf and alligator handbag." Also a mink stole. But no jewels. (Explained the Duke, whose Duchess got stolen blind back in Britain: "Well, really, there wouldn't be many left to bring, you know.") They figured on staying till May this time. Then back to France...