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Word: posteriority (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorts of baths and sprays cover the floor of the hydrotherapy or bathing room. A specially constructed V-shaped "sitz" bath accomodates a pulled groin when an injured player settles his posterior into it. Two tin bath-tubs resembling those in vogue about 1875 are used to cool or heat a hurt leg, their whirlpools providing a gentle massage which increases the blood circulation. A number of pranksters have had epic water battles with the "fire hose" machine, used by the trainers to message pulled backs with its high-pressure stream...

Author: By Charles S. Borden, | Title: Health, and Equipment Repaired at Dillon | 10/4/1941 | See Source »

...highly staminate Flower Belle, Mae West spreads her gorgeous corolla (including a butterfly bow that coyly punctuates her posterior rhythms) in Greasewood City, one of the West's wide-open places. There she gets mixed up with a Masked Bandit, who turns out to be Joseph Calleia disguised as a cagoulard. Flower Belle's throaty account of their first meeting: "I was in a tight spot, but I managed to wiggle out of it." She also fakes a marriage with Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields) because she thinks his bag of fake money is real, substitutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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