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...Louis, dressing up is still considered a bit of a lark and centers on occasions like the Veiled Prophet Ball, where above-elbow white gloves are de rigueur for wives and the soberest businessmen get wildly trigged out as bearded warriors...
Fadden also proposed a rule change: outlaw the high-arm block. A blocker can ram his forearm or elbow into an opponent's face despite the protection of the mask. Cage masks which leave no opening wide enough for an elbow are fine for linemen, but backs, who need more visibility, are forced to use the conventional double or single bar variety. If high-arm blocking were illegal, Fadden believes that there would be no need for the face mask...
...Seats in Sever 11 are so narrow that students in English 115 have to lean Chaucer's Works on one neighbor's elbow and notebooks on the opposite neighbor's Chaucer book...
...TACKLES: Ralph Neely, 21, Oklahoma, 6 ft. 5 in., 261 Ibs., and Harry Schuh, 21, Memphis State, 6 ft. 3 in., 265 Ibs. Neely has all the physical requirements -"a rough, tough charger with good elbow movement, quick at the snap"-but the pros brood about his motivation. "The appeal of money," muses a scout, "might make him achieve real dedication." Of Schuh: "Amazing agility and speed, could...
...decolletage was as breathcatching as the Grande Corniche, her hair was hennaed, her makeup stark white; her expressive arms were encased in black gloves to the knobby elbow, and from her thin, lacquered lips slipped a repertory of chansons more Rabelaisian, Evangelist Dwight Moody once grieved, than any "Sodom ever produced." That was French Disease Yvette Guilbert, the ex-seamstress whose reputation became as luminous and lurid as the Divine Sarah or Eleonora Duse...