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Word: keister (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vulgar man named Clyde Hager. Right out of Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes from Pitch men" department in The Billboard, Mr. Hager, clutching suitcase and stand, scuttles back & forth across the stage pursued by a policeman until late in Act I. Then, setting up his tripes and keister, he proceeds to vend his patent potato peeler. It is all very authentic, with many protestations that his company is really giving away its product for advertising purposes and is willing to throw in a bar of Arabian perfumed soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...interior of Mr. Carroll's $4,500,000 cathedral was obviously not the work of restrained Architect Joseph Urban, who built the Ziegfeld Theatre. It was done by George Keister and Joseph J. Babolnay. Tier upon tier of colored stone ribbed with twinkling metal rose like the bulge of a gigantic layer cake. A loudspeaker in the lobby urged latecomers to hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Flesh Cathedral | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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