Word: girth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average "Dutchman" is blond, fair looking, but great of girth. Men, women and children drink beer with pretzels, attend family (name) reunions. They are slow thinkers, but conservatives, who are easily led by backslappers...
...Monday the dress rehearsal was staged, and it went off like clockwork except for slight difficulties among the harnessing group. For at least two of the horses refused to submit to amateur harnessers, and one of the beasts created a small panic by promptly lying down when his girth was tightened by inept hands...
Premier Pattullo. still immaculate but with a bigger girth, announced exultantly last week that British Columbia had closed a deal with the Dominion Government to take over Yukon Territory. As soon as British Columbia's Legislature signs on the dotted line, that province with an area of 573,331 sq. mi. will become, next to Quebec, the largest in Canada, more than ten times as big as New York State. From maps of Canada will disappear the colorful Yukon Territory, made famous by the discovery of gold in 1896 and the hairy-chested poems of Robert William Service...
...advertising sensation of 1934 was the color photograph of Gentleman Jockey Crawford Burton, twice winner of the dangerous Maryland Hunt Cup, posing in his racing silks as an endorser of Camel cigarets' recuperative powers. By a horrible mischance, the photograph of Mr. Burton, holding his saddle and girth, reproduced in such a manner that to a prurient or imaginative eye it appeared to show Mr. Burton indecently exposed as only a man could be exposed...
...England's foremost cartoonist, Low has for some time had as his piece-de-resistance an elderly Englishman, ample of girth, in a Turkish bath setting, usually making some remark of a topical nature beginning with...