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...French. In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license. Famous caricatures in the show included Isaac Cruikshank's credited Belly Piece Shop in which various court ladies of marked posterior inflation are being fitted to boot with anterior pads labeled one, two, four, six and nine months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Low's Forebears | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...down to a fit 170, the better to fight his enemies. Encased in heavy pants, rubber vest, rubber coat, two sweaters, he sweats his way around the University of Washington track every morning at 6 o'clock , flexes the Beck muscles on a rowing machine, subjects the Beck posterior to an electric belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Beck Reduced | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Paralysis of the posterior annex" is the first symptom of "Squirmitis," a failing peculiar to spectators of double-feature programs. This annoyed announcement was made by two cinemagoing citizens of Nutley, N. J., William R. Clay and George H. Siegel, who a month ago founded the Anti Movie Double-Feature League of America, to improve local programs and revitalize their neighbors' paralyzed posteriors. Last week Founders Clay & Siegel were surprised and sobered to find their organization catapulting to national scale. The A. M. D.F. L. of A., dedicated to mass-boycotting of double bills, now boasts 65 chapters, hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Anti-Dualists | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...jail on a charge that was later proved to be absolutely untrue, although a false statement of confession had been given out to the papers on the following day. Again, a Phi Beta Kappa student was arrested on the charge of drunkenness, for objecting to being kicked in the posterior by an officer, who claimed that he had not moved along fast enough, when told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LET THEM BEWARE! | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...Behanan says he first practiced posterior stretching. Sitting with his legs stretched out he hooked his forefingers over his big toes and touched his knees with his head. This "brings a rich supply of blood to the pelvic organs and tones up the nerves arising from the lower part of the spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yale's Yogin | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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