Word: midriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Occasionally he would invite newly employed sailors to drink with him. As they raised their mugs of rum he whacked them in the midriff. In winter, he would scowl upon the shivering beggars...
...Parliament on Oct. 6. It was hoped that before Oct. 6: 1) M. Briand could negotiate the Security Pact; 2) M. Caillaux might properly negotiate a debt settlement with the U. S.; 3) Maréchal Petain would plant a decisive blow in Abd-el-Krim's midRiff. Now France is less sanguine of the immediate success of her three champions. The Government has postponed the opening of Parliament until...
Last week he returned from seven years in the service of his country overseas. There was no mention of the fact in Detroit, in Kansas City, in Omaha, in New Orleans-no mention even in Philadelphia, a bare 100 miles from Manhattan's midriff, where he disembarked. He is not, like Andrew Mellon or Rodolfo Valentino, a newspaper character...