Word: ribbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like her autobiography, Masks was aimed nowhere in particular but hits the shopgirl public right under the fifth rib. Even Publisher Button describes the story as "pure romance." If Masks had been published anonymously, readers could have deduced that its author had led a sheltered life but had not been sufficiently protected from far-fetched fiction of the baser sort. Rewritten into cinemantics, it might be palmed off as Art, but it would need a Garbo to complete the illusion...
...Both Optimae and Duces have their names carved in oak panels in the dining hall. Girls are subject to constant British roll calls to which they answer their last name. For exercise Rosemarians play hockey, ride with Miss Lowndes, whose inveterate sidesaddle horsewomanship is reputedly attested by a platinum rib, or go for "bounds" (rapid walks...
...ball, a slippery field and no Davie Davis," ruefully explained Coach Howard Jones of Southern California, mourning the loss of his dynamic little quarterback, out with a torn rib cartilage in the first quarter. Coach Jones did not explain weak passing, bad kicking, silly generalship, as a defensive Washington State team played his would-be champions to a 0-to-0 standstill...
...Brown, complaining of pain in her chest. He decided that a general infection had inflamed the thin sac called the pericardium which contains the heart and caused it to adhere to Mrs. Bramy's breast bone. Surgeon Brown excised a section of the woman's sternum and ribs together with enough rib gristle to enable him to reach into her chest and free the pericardium from its adhesions. At the same time he removed a tiny bit of pericardial tissue. As he suspected, that wall of Mrs. Bramy's heart was beginning to turn to stone...
...platform stood a huge sign urging "Join Now - No Initiation Fee - One Union for All Workers!" Four green-rib boned wreaths were inscribed: "In Memoriam. The Spirit of 1892 Lives On." Chief speaker was red-faced Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of United Mine Workers and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania...