Word: loin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best comedians were tiny Lily Pons and massive Lauritz Melchior who donned sequin loin cloths and indulged in acrobatics which would have been perilous without the wires which hoisted them into the air. Because the occasion was in part a farewell to Manager Giulio Gatti- Casazza every effort was made to get him to appear on the stage. But Gatti shuns the spotlight. Instead, cinema pictures of him were shown from The March of Time while the performers sang "Auld Lang Syne." The entire audience rose and clamored for the man who has guided the Metropolitan through 27 years. Gatti...
...Capitol the last sprint began. Bird-Lying-Down carried the precious chamois bag. A crowd gathered at the South Gate of the White House grounds. Wearing loin cloths with disklike reflectors fore and aft, as protection against motor traffic, the 14 braves entered and jogged up the walk. In the silk-walled Blue Room the President received the naked Indians and the three kernels of corn inviting him to attend the peace celebration of the Six Nations at Fort Niagara on Sept. 3. He shook the Redmen's hands and said that he was sorry but he thought he could...
...most powerful U. S. generators of electricity to shoot at atoms are Professor Lawrence's 5,000,000-volt generator at Berkeley and Professor Robert J. Van de Graaff's 10,000,000-volt one at Round Hill, Mass. Professor Lawrence gets his effect by whirling a loin. disk in an 85-ton magnet. Last week he said that he was substituting a 40-in. disk, to get 20,000,000-voltage. In Professor Van de Graaff's machine moving paper belts brush static electricity upon huge metal balls. A modification, for which he already...
...seconds after the gong surly Jack Sharkey was flat on his back for a count of seven. Soon his left eye was swollen, he moved groggily. Warming up, Levinsky floundered in fiercely, sometimes wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump blow after blow at Sharkey's head, then at his body. After ten fast savage rounds, the judges unanimously gave the decision to Chicago's Levinsky, highly elating the onetime...
...definition of Gandhism as "goats milk, loin cloth, etc." is offered as a comic caricature, one can appreciate the writer's sense of humor. But if that is all he sincerely discovers in Gandhism, his state of mind is to be pitied. Gandhi would not resent being dubbed as a "renegade, philistine, etc," by his critie, for he would find himself in a distinguished company of many of the foremost communist leaders of yesterday, that may be joined by many more of today...