Word: rib
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...Miles City. The proposed dog races at the State Fair were off. George Miner, agent at the Northern Pacific station, was selling travelers' insurance on false teeth and Paris Cleaners were doing three ladies' dresses for $1. Field mouse kid shoes were on sale at Smithers for $6.75 and rib boil could be purchased at Hennessy Bros...
...brittle. Iron and steel bones rusted so quickly that one or two washings made the corset as ugly as it was uncomfortable. So in 1894 the Warner Brothers, working with Worcester's American Steel & Wire Co. (now part of U. S. Steel), presented the rustproof steel corset rib. It revolutionized the boning business, made whale-bones obsolete...
...brand of apoplectic humour, and not much more need be said of it. There may be a few who do not like Groucho and his cohorts; the large majority will proceed to the University sometime during the week, with their risibilities filed to a fine edge, and sit straining rib muscles for an hour or so; the only advice to be given is, to go early and avoid the rush...
...limousine to make a succession of sick calls. Through sleet and along roads as slick as glass, he first drove to the Naval Hospital. There he found Secretary Ickes propped up in bed attended by a skeleton staff from the Interior Department, trying his best to disregard a fractured rib sustained when he fell on an icy pavement. Oil Administrator, Public Works Administrator, a holder of five extra-cabinet jobs, Mr. Ickes knows that he and Secretary Wallace are the two men on whom the President depends most. It had taken much bullying from tall Mrs. Ickes, Illinois legislator...
...when called to administer relief, I proceeded to cleanse the wound, give it a superficial dressing, not believing it possible for him to survive 20 minutes. On attempting to reduce the protruding portions, I found that the lung was prevented from returning by the sharp point of the fractured rib, over which its membrane had caught fast, but by raising up the lung with the forefinger of my left hand I clipped off, with my penknife in my right hand, the sharp point of the rib, which enabled me to return the lung into the cavity of the thorax...