Word: pretzelism
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...Radcliffe's more adept snowbunnies is shown above in a touching and not unfamilar pose. In fact, medical science is forever amazed at the pretzel positions assumed by the rubber-legged lasses from the city. Small wonder they would rather stay...
With a casualty list of thirty-five serious injuries so far this season, House teams have a proportionately greater rate of dismemberment than the more carefully tutored Varsity. Broken ankles, mashed noses, and collar bones twisted into the shape of a pretzel turn the intramural league into a sporty abattoir. While a certain number of injuries must be expected in any sport emphasizing body contact, the large number and character of the injuries incurred by House football players seems entirely out of proportion with the type of game played in the College...
...Arbor, Mich, under a full vellow moon, 5,000 boys & girls, chanting and howling Hail to the Victors, swarmed all over town, turned the Pretzel Bell into a roaring bedlam, went on to. dance at the Union...
Taken tangle by tangle, Knots is instructive and often amusing. From Archer to Yachtsman, it describes the knots of nearly 100 occupations, including the baker's pretzel twist and the parachutist's sling. It gives explicit instructions on how to spit and truss a fowl, lace a football, mend a garden hose, string pearls, fly a kite, string a fiddle, tie a necktie. It offers such engaging oddments as the Norfolk-to-Washington Boat Heaving Line Knot, Department-Store Loop, Cuckold's Neck Knot, Bathrobe Cord Knot...
Broadway has been having a busy June but a bad one. The "silly season" has sprouted comedies that lack even a silly seasoning of wit, farces more like new forms of torture, a beer-&-pretzel extravaganza at which the vile acoustics became a virtue. Most of these walking corpses already lie in their little graves. Least bad and most likely to survive: Take a Bow, a variety show that, whenever it comes up with a good turn, forgets that one good turn deserves another...