Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plugged like a new jazz song was the trouser mode for women at last week's show. Having established the once unpopular ensemble, U. S. couturiers are now busy trying to put over the glorified pajama and its offspring, the feminine overall, at least for luncheon, tea, tennis, beach strolling. The opinion of most buyers last week was that part-time trousers for women are just wandering, have gotten nowhere...
...Some civil agitators known for a long time to the authorities as men without scruple or worth, organized a ridiculous plot against the form of the state without causing the least disorder...
...been accidentally shorn of all her hair by a stupid maid. I cannot remember a time when the cutting of girls' hair did not excite and thrill me. At the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 I joined in the crowds with a safety-razor-blade and destroyed at least two dozen heads of hair, fortunately avoiding arrest although I was almost caught once. Several years later I was an entire Jack-the-Snipper epidemic in Dallas, all by myself, and was in a fair way to go all to pieces when I found the true explanation. At once...
...most important observation that Drs. Boas and Weiss made is that the heart rate of an individual during sleep is an index of the speed at which his heart must beat to meet his physiological needs. In sleep he is least disturbed by thoughts or outside influences. Sleeping normal heart rates ranged roughly from 40 to 55 beats a minute for males, 50 to 65 beats for females, whereas the generally accepted "normal" rate for males is 62, for females...
Hunky was the Book-of-the-Month Club's July selection (see above). The Literary Guild's was The Wave. Acclaimed a work of genius, The Wave succeeds in being at least unusual. Its 625 pages rehearse the Civil War without telling a connected story, but through 90 separate "stories." Authoress Scott's purpose: to make an impressionistic panorama of people then and how they felt. Her method recalls John Brown's Body, the Civil War in blank verse by Stephen Vincent Benét. Like Poet Benét, Authoress Scott did her writing...