Word: midriff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither of the girls gets him, and Miss Winters gets nothing, finally, but a lead slug in her midriff. But not before her shrewd playing has made Tory a wench to be remembered. Larceny ends on a sad note, because sharp direction and dialogue have made its crooks into likable lads who seem to be getting a raw deal. This medium-budget picture's brisk, realistic details may make its manufacturers a tidy profit...
...fashionable Street of the Converts, however, Rome's modistes, having no urge toward martyrdom, prudently removed all bare midriff garments from their display windows. "I have two-piece suits for anybody who asks for them," said matronly Teresa Spizzichino. "They're made so as to hold any bosom tightly and cover both navel and-er-lower hind parts." Just the same, she admitted, the one-piece variety might be better. "Eventually the ladies will take to them, not because they like them better, but simply because no woman wants to run unnecessary risks. Getting into trouble with...
Detective Henry Wittenberg had eaten too much. He had also won his first two matches, in the Olympic wrestling trials last week, so easily that he scarcely worked up a sweat. Feeling heavy in the midriff and afraid of exceeding the 191 Ib. weight, Wittenberg decided on a little road work. As he stepped on to the darkened Iowa State College track, Wrestler Wittenberg tripped and fell, fracturing a bone in his ankle...
...Pancia." Toscanini himself is still in fighting trim. He is slightly heavier than he once was, but likes to point to his midriff and say, "Look, no pancia.'" He can still bound up stairs two at a time, although he seldom does because, he says, people think it's undignified. Often before rehearsals he jumps up on an office couch, feet together, to test his legs. Before a recent performance, he jumped up & down trying to reach the ceiling, crying, "I am an old man. Why has God afflicted me with the blood of a 17-year...
...down some $250,000,000 from 1946-due mostly to home permanents. And permanent waves make up one-half of all beauty shops' sales. Unless shops find a way to keep women loyal to store curls, or newly resolute in pounding fat off thigh and midriff, most of the beauty would go out of their business...