Word: flatfoots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beach with her boy friend Mario. "We were lying there in the sun talking," she told a reporter later, "when somebody tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Where do you think you are -in your bedroom?' There, leaning over us, was an ugly, sweating flatfoot with a big mustache. 'Beat it,' he said, 'and take off that scandalous bathing suit or else-' 'What do you mean?' I asked gently. Then he said there's a new order prohibiting indecent bathing suits and that I was a shameless girl. Why that...
...Elevator operators in Los Angeles' City Hall were told to stop calling out. "War Department!" for the floor on which Divorces are granted, "Flatfoot Alley!" for police headquarters, and "Ball & Chain!" for the city attorney's criminal division...
...runner, Chapp is much less shifty than his predecessor Tom Harmon, although last year his combined running and passing (for 1,235 yds.) far outstripped Harmon's best total. He is a heavy-legged, hippy runner along the lines of "Flatfoot Frank" Sinkwich, late of Georgia. He is a superb faker and a hard tackier. But he has one weakness-pass defense-which keeps him on the bench when the enemy has the ball. The way Chapp explains it": "You have to smell where to go on pass defense-and my sniffer's not too good...
...legal psychiatry at Yale, and Dr. Thomas Coffin, assistant professor of psychology at Hofstra College, riffled through the clues left by 18 psychotic murderers. Their conclusion: mad killers seem to commit their murders in a distinct pattern; there is seldom enough method in their madness to fool the dumbest flatfoot...
...extreme shyness. As a boy on Manhattan's lower East Side he couldn't work up enough courage to dance with girls. On the theory he has held ever since, that personal popularity parallels dancing ability, he grimly learned to dance, soon won a settlement house "flatfoot waltz" contest. From that he went on to be a dance instructor for Vernon and Irene Castle, among others. When he was making $100 a week, he quit to study business administration at Georgia Tech. Said he: "I didn't want to be a hoofer...