Word: hugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME regrets misquoting Judge Lindsey. What he did say about Denver high school girls was that 90% of them hug & kiss, 50% of the 90% go further, 15% to 25% of the 90% "go the limit. This does not imply or mean promiscuity or frequency, but it happens...
...Chinese fire which weakened the Chinese entanglements little by little. Among "somewhat wounded" Chinese soldiers (men with perhaps an arm shot off or an eye shot out), a spontaneous movement rose to volunteer as "human bombs." Such a Chinese, first soaking his clothes and bandages in gasoline, would hug a bomb to his breast with his one remaining arm and run as fast as he could to hurl himself & bomb against the Japanese. Not many "human bombs" reached their mark. Most blew up and burned up as the heroic Chinese ran into the leaden teeth of Japanese machine gun fire...
...heart-breakingly cool and distant as she strolled inside her white picket-fence of a Sunday afternoon. One remembers Fanchon, the exotic little product of great hotels and continental schools, who actually "were her hair up" and shocked the children's party with the new Bunny Hug and Turkey Trot and Slingo Sligo Slide. Those naive and incredible days of 1912 made a story that, in retrospect, has the quaint provincialism of "Cranford...
Deaf as a post, or nearly, is great General Ismet Pasha, Prime Minister. At the railway station in Angora, bleak Turkish Capital, he warmly greeted last week a Greek, famed Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister. Before M. Venizelos could speak, deaf General Ismet embraced him with a bear-hug. Arm in arm they left the station...
...rhymester, in an article for the August American Magazine: "If you're a visitor in our home, you may look to see me kiss her [Mrs. Nellie Grossman Guest] good-bye in the morning and kiss her again when I come home at night. I'll give her a hug and a whirl around the room and ask her how the day has gone...