Word: rib
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specially designed to soothe the ear and tickle the rib are these items on the song and dance schedule: Lady, Be Good; Kid Boots, Music Box Revue, I'll Say She Is, Dixie to Broadway, The Grab Bag, Rose-Marie, Ziegfeld Follies...
...recorded children of Adam and Eve are Cain and Abel. Cain slew Abel. Mr. Shipman offers the following possible theories to explain the per- petuation of the human race: 1) Cain's wife was made, like Adam, from the dust or, like Eve, from her husband's rib. But Mr. Shipman "would see something grotesque in the idea of a Cain brought up through baby hood, childhood and youth to meet a ready-made bride." 2) Eve may have had daughters unmentioned in the Bible. But "for many years the human mind has shrunk sensitively away from...
...Stadium flagpoles. He would have heard a vast roar of many voices in the grandstands. But his eyes were tight shut. His ears heard nothing. He was not conscious. The basking man was Jack Bloomfield, onetime light heavyweight boxing champion of Europe, knocked horizontal by the hammering face, rib and head blows of Tom Gibbons, of St. Paul, Minn., in the third round of what had been scheduled as a 20-round fight. The winner surveyed his handiwork, returned to his dressing room, ate ice-cream...
...Cracked Rib...
...Detroit, one Mrs. S. Billman visited her son. He escorted her to the station when she left, hugged her with violent affection, cracked her rib...