Word: posteriority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heyneman woke her husband and sent him to the room. Heyneman took a look, saw the prowler's posterior protruding from under the bed, and called two other students, Paul Zall 1G (above, center) and William Seyferth '50 (right) from their rooms...
...Mother lingered behind, possibly to paste in the family scrapbook a piquant social item from the Des Moines Register; "When [Lady Astor] finished speaking at the . . . tea, one of the guests thanked the speaker profusely. The English noblewoman responded with a sudden kick right on her admirer's posterior. The guest stiffened,then, with a gale of laughter, turned and kicked the Lady right back...
Oops! When-by virtue of guile, luck or the dexterity of an acrobat-he gets a seat, he immediately becomes conscious of another startling fact. The seats are too small, and his posterior is subject to the same grip which clamps once exerted on the necks of photographers' victims...
wants to ride through Tokyo on Hirohito's white horse, got encouragement from the Reno Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber ordered a custom-built, silver-mounted saddle for the Admiral, solemnly asked Washington for his beam measurements. "I wouldn't know about the posterior," said his daughter, Mrs. Preston Lea Spruance, a distant cousin (by marriage) to Admiral Spruance, "Daddy is about 34 inches around the waist, and his hips aren't much larger. Neither mother nor I has ever measured...
...attempt to determine the average Air Force size. Professor Hooton's efforts last year centered in an attempt to find the perfect post-war trolley and subway seat, which he accomplished by measuring the derrieres of several thousand men and women in North Station and calculating the perfect posterior...