Word: posteriority
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...oozed and blobbered from Mr. Trahan's lips, was stuck under the piano, retrieved, chewed, stuck again, smeared on the piano keys, frantically stretched in all directions, finally gathered together for the supreme effort of mirth. This comes when the lump appears beneath Mr. Trahan's posterior and he hastily sits down on it, thus sticking himself to the piano stool where he antics gummily in mad dismay...
...have been personally and bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Neither was it frightened. For though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives solely from the little man with the battered hat, bamboo cane and black mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior would probably be recognized by more people throughout the world than would recognize any other man's face, will be doing business after talkies have been traded in for television...
Sticking out his posterior, lowering his head belligerently, Max Baer,* California heavyweight, possessor of a 16-cylinder car, confident manners and many suits of flashy clothes, charged out of his corner in Madison Square Garden last week and began to lambaste the ribs and features of Ernie Schaaf† of Elizabeth, N. J. Schaaf backed away and countered. In Schaaf's corner Jack Sharkey, working as second, poured advice into his ear: "Keep him out with your left. He don't know nothing." Baer, it is true, knows little about boxing, but his blows recently killed Frankie Campbell...
...Herr von Opel's audience. You light the fuse, the powder burns, the gases expand so rapidly that they push the rocket up through the air in a screeching arc. But could an automobile be substituted for the stock of a skyrocket and pushed along the ground by posterior expansion? Herr von Opel would show them...
...Elizabeth City Hospital Sunday morning. Young Nixon was brought to the hospital last week in a frightful condition from the effects of a blast of air from a powerful air compressor injected into his interior by a playmate. The nozzle of the air hose was thrust into the posterior of the youth and the air blast literally blew the contents of his bowels up and through his mouth and nostrils. He was brought to the hospital with his intestines inflated and paralyzed...