Word: loin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house, a block away from her laboratory, to recover from starvation with a three-day diet of fruit juices, cereals ("except rice"), eggs. On the fourth day she has "a big juicy steak" and a romp with her only Philadelphia companion, a wire-haired terrier named Whiskers, from whose loin Miss Medes six years ago removed a kidney. Last week Miss Medes was vacationing from a November spree, will go on another after New Year...
Just Half a Pound. View of a German butcher's shop with a thick-legged German hausfrau ordering from a heavily mustached butcher. A female torso hangs from the hooks beside a loin of beef, a trayful of human feet is behind the counter among the sausages...
...then closed the old opening in the man's loin. In a week or two Simplicio Godino will be out of the hospital, obliged to learn and earn an entirely new way of living...
Judo performers wear trousers and jackets. Sumo wrestlers in action wear only a loin cloth and, for bravado, bits of stiff rope. Since weight and girth with which to crowd an adversary out of the ring count for more than muscle, sumo performers eat gigantic meals and occasionally reach monstrous proportions. Biggest among current sumo celebrities is Dewagatake who, a pygmy compared to oldtime sumo giants, stands 6 ft. 8 in., weighs 350 lb. His girth is only 3½ ft. to Champion Tama-nishiki...
...voice, saying, "Not every one knows it, but at Harvard the students live in seven beautiful houses. They cost Mr. Harkness twelve million dollars. Twelve million dollars is a lot of money. In England twelve million pounds is even more money. Mr. Harkness's ancestors ran around in leopard loin-cloths, hunting wild boars for supper, and made fire to cook by rubbing two sticks together. These ancestors never knew what twelve million dollars looked like, but they had better teeth than Mr. Harkness and could make love better than any Harvard man." The Vagabond lifted himself...