Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kent. Last week Lord Bessborough further miffed Canadians by insisting that his youngest son, aged 3, should see papa open Canada's Senate and House of Commons. As usual the vice-Regal tot arrived guarded by a six-foot, red-jacketed Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman, pistol on hip...
...Spiked Hips. The unshapely knob at the top of the thigh bone (femur) is the hip bone. When a person, especially if elderly, falls the knob is apt to break off from the thigh bone. Healing has been a tremendously difficult and painful process. Last year Dr. David Robert Telson of Brooklyn suggested piercing the knob and shaft and lacing them together with stout piano wire. This procedure works to a degree. But the stoutest piano wire gives a little. Last week Dr. Frederick J. Gaenslen of Milwaukee said that he got dependable cures of broken hips by nailing...
...Professor William King Gregory of Columbia tracing the evolution of the pelvis from fish to man, beginning with the fact that fish have hip-bones-rudimentary little rods unattached to the backbone but helping to support rear fins. Further improvement of the pelvis enabled amphibians to crawl, later animals to walk on all fours, humans and ortho-grade primates to walk upright. (Once possessors of good hips, whales reversed the process, lost most of the pelvis by taking to the water...
...left out of the revised copy signed by President Roosevelt though included in printed copies circulated by the Petroleum Administration (TIME, Oct. 22). The oil companies' attorney last week assured the Supreme Court that the only true copy of the oil code he had ever seen was "in the hip pocket of an agent sent down to Texas from Washington...
...appearance he is tall and broad, walks with head slightly bowed. He wears dark, conservative clothes, carries a Bible in his hip pocket...