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Word: posteriorly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 »

...Artist-Publisher Mitchell drew the first Life nameplate with its mascot cupids, later contributed the famed masthead of a knight leveling his lance at the posterior of a fleeing devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life: Dead & Alive | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, reached in his Eton schooldays last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus belabored like any other Eton schoolboy, but Viscount Lascelles is most unlikely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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