Word: midriffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played in. This consists of piling all the furniture, radio, rugs, and room-mates in one isolated corner of the room, leaving ample space for the rest of the boys to romp. The pastime is reported to have derived its name from the sound a contestant makes when his midriff is mistaken for the tennis ball...
...able to do anything more about it. Not so one rugged individual named Arturo Toscanini. Last week, as the world and his wife cluck-clucked helplessly over Nazi activities in Austria (see p. 19) the bantamweight maestro got in a smart jab to his old enemy's musical midriff. Salzburg is in Austria, and since Maestro Toscanini has been conducting there (since 1934) in its annual summer festival, Salzburg has taken much of the tourist cake from, its Bavarian rival, Bayreuth. Last week Toscanini cabled from Manhattan that he would have nothing further to do with the Salzburg Festival...
Culver City, seven mi. west of Los Angeles' midriff, has for two months clamored for the right to use the name Hollywood. Reasons: 1) Culver City boasts three major, several minor film studios;-2) cinemanufacture and Hollywood are synonymous. Not long ago Hollywood's Chamber of Commerce President O. K. Olesen, indignant, maneuvered through the Los Angeles City Council an ordinance defining Hollywood's boundaries, and Culver City, left definitely outside the fence, sullenly threatened to vote itself the name Hollywood anyhow...
Suddenly the door opened to reveal Homer Martin's evangelical features looking like those of a cornered gangster. He had a cigaret between his lips, a pistol in his fist. Stepping back from the pistol pointed at his midriff, Leader Gallagher said icily: "That's a hell of a way to greet a union...
...year after the opening of Spam's bloody, but undermanned civil war, neither Leftists nor Rightists lack able staff officers. What both sides do need is enough troops for effective action on five separate fronts that snake for nearly 1,200 miles down the midriff of Spain. For some months military observers on both sides have cynically propounded a convenient rule: they will concede definite military superiority to whichever side is able to maintain an offensive for three successive days...