Word: fundaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon grew more so. They said: "We'd like to see General Johnson walk up to an open-hearth furnace and get his summer pants scorched for $21.84 a week." The hard-boiled ex-cavalry officer retorted that in the saddle he had worn enough skin off his fundament to make half a dozen such critics as the Rank & Filers. Next morning he read in the papers an open letter to himself...
...last week Dr. Nicholas Demetris Michou, 59, was recuperating from an operation which his physician thought unique in the annals of medicine. One day in January Dr. Michou sat down in his office chair, leaped up with a 1½-in. piece of hypodermic needle buried in his fundament. Because he could not reach around to treat himself, he called in Dr. George S. Foster who probed in vain. By last fortnight the needle had worked 2½ in. into Dr. Michou's flesh and was approaching his hip-joint. Dr. Foster had an idea. Calling General Electric laboratory...
...heard that the husband of his mistress is on board. He exchanges identities with the ship's tailor, Jack Pearl, who promptly takes on a manager, Jimmy Durante. In a rain of ticker-tape, as thousands cheer, the two impostors ride expansively up Broadway. When Pearl recognizes the fundament of his Aunt Sophie who is washing a window, he plunges head-down in the automobile and Durante, with a vulgarity at once extravagantly bold and strangely shy, notes the family resemblance. In a broadcasting studio the fake Baron, innocent of an adventurous past, fakes an outrageous one. His "Vass...
...cause of freedom in American art to yield to your request." The suit will not come up for "probably quite a while." Curiously, the Minskys were not at all miffed with another painting called "Burlesque," by famed Thomas Benton, depicting a young woman gaily waggling her fundament at a dozen goggling male customers. "That's modernistic," decided the Minskys...
...This indisposition resolves the difficulties which result from Cooper's discovery that his fiancee has been an inmate of a pleasure house in Cristobal. Shot: Cooper maintaining the tradition that no real man knows how to manipulate an infant, by splashing soapy water on the foundling's fundament...