Word: corseted
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...London, 1688, of fairly well-to-do elderly parents. A delicate child, he was set upon by a cow when he was three; this accident, says Biographer Sitwell, may have resulted in his subsequent deformity. As a grown man he could not dress himself, had to wear a stiff corset when he walked, supported himself with a cane. Precocious rhymester, ambitious poet, he intended to be not only great but "correct." At 25 he was one of the foremost literary men in England, received £5,000 or £6,000 for his translation of the Iliad...
...Other U. S. institutes and associations are many, include: American Macaroni Manufacturers' Association, American Shovel Institute, Ash Handle Association. Association of Limb Manufacturers of America, Better Bedding Alliance of America, Canadian Newsprint Association (see p. 19), Casket Manufacturers' Association of America, Copper Institute, Corset and Brassiere Association of America...
...fertilizer and cattle meal. Thrifty Japanese treat a whale as thoroughly as they do a hog. The meat is sold in tins. In Tokyo, the tips of whale tails are considered the height of delicacy. The Arctic Right Whale, once valued at $10,000 each because of the fine corset stays it yielded, is no longer greatly desired, is practically free to cavort, make love, furiously batter its head against steel vessels...
...Greenwich, Conn., a small boy fired a pistol at a bird on a branch, missed. The bullet passed through a hotel window screen, was halted by the corset of a Mrs. William O. Remsen, guest...
...Corsets and Corset-like Garments. The Corset & Brassiere Association asked that the wording of the law be brought up to date, asked for a duty...