Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Dizzy Club, Host Lou Richman, brother of Songster Harry Richman, engaged a new bouncer. She was hulking Lois De Fee, 17, of Austin, Tex., who stood 6 ft. 2 in. barefoot, weighed 184 Ib. Proudly she exhibited a nude photograph taken when she danced in a Havana revue. Flexing her biceps, Bouncer De Fee said: "The other night a woman came in here and said she was Evelyn Nesbitt, and she said something personal, and we mixed it. You have all the trouble with the women. Isn't it funny how big women like...
Corn, About 2,000,000 acres of prime farm land are required to supply the 60,-000,000 bu. of corn consumed annually by corn refiners. Chief products are 600,000,000 Ib. of starch, 400,000,000 Ib. of sugar, 1,000,000,000 Ib. of syrup. There are also innumerable corn specialties and byproducts. Corn refining has been a well-established industry for more than half a century, yet the annual grind last year was only 50% larger than in 1906. "These figures offer a sobering thought in our program of promoting the consumption of agricultural goods...
...Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged and irregular. His short legs which sup ported his 205 Ib. wabbled like...
...deluxe fencing school was on the Rue de Crenelle, swordsman Nadi heard about the fencing boom in the U. S., he pricked up his ears. In addition to promising rich dividends for teaching, it would take him closer to Hollywood. Darkly handsome, 6 ft. tall and so slim (135 Ib.) that he offers opponents a discouragingly narrow target, Swordsman Nadi, who once acted in a French film, has always wanted to go there...
...called because of his age but because that is a favorite nickname for a stolid driver. There are five other "Pops" in his division. Most Interstate drivers look like wrestlers because the company's minimum weight limit is 160 Ib. Haselwood is just over the line with 164. He is married, childless, makes about $225 per month. The one time he ever drove "like hell" was when a woman in his bus bore a baby...