Word: flap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit the undismayed comedian does a complicated tap dance up & down a pair of Tom Thumb steps, sits down at a portable piano and sings the tuneful theme song, "Hold Your Horses," to his mare Magnolia. When he refers to Magnolia's heart of gold a flap opens in her side, displaying a large gilt heart. A midget in a tiny horse's suit runs out on the stage with Magnolia's dinner pail, a feedbag full of oats. Broadway Joe takes the bag, pats the midget, blandly remarking: "That's her son. This...
...decided it was out, turned to hear the linesman call it good. A few moments later, Crawford had the set. With judicial composure he strolled to the marquee where his plump wife was smiling, chatted for ten minutes, while Perry went to change his flannels for ducks that would flap less in the wind. With a crowd to watch him, Perry, like Borotra, gives an impression of being debonair, lighthearted, only incidentally concerned with winning. In reality, even more than most crack players, he is deadly serious about tennis. Determined to win one important championship in 1933, he had trained...
...West furor and are mostly peaked berets, low-crowned sailors, draped turbans. Stylists noted particularly that : Maggy Rouff plumps for small Victorian basque waists flat in front and back but spreading shell-like from the hips, fur peplums on street jackets and huge pouch pockets which flap from the belts of sport jackets. Schiaparelli, reigning favorite of smart...
...very crate in which the broiler rides to town may be under criminal control. The food the broiler gets is sold by racketeers, and in the middle of the day or night he may be surprised to find his crate broken open, himself dumped out to squawk and flap in brief freedom until a predatory child or housewife captures him from his rightful owners...
...stupendous loss of body fluids. The whole body becomes covered with dank moisture. Cheeks become hollow, noses pinched, eyes sunk, voices husky. Death's rigor sets in quickly. Muscles become literally hard as wood. Sometimes a stiffening corpse jerks about, may kick out a foot, wave an arm. flap its jaws, roll its eyes...