Word: saucering
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...have the acquired taste for the sweet cynicism of Contineual comedy, "Figure of a Girl" should he your dish. But don't expect more than a saucer...
First prize (a strictly functional Leghorn pullet) went to Tom Currie of Southport, Conn, for his "man"-a creature with a flat, streamlined head atop a flying-saucer body. He had an aspirin tablet for an eye and a built-in cigarette, but "no ears-radar perception; no stomach -no limit on drinking; no legs-walking, what's that?" Second prize (an egg) was won by Julian Everett of Manhattan for a cork-calved, swivel-eared robot whose right hand was a "clam digger for getting," his left a "built-in money box for keeping." Among the items...
...saucer-sized disc inscribed with the Latin words: "Altius, Citius, Fortius," meaning, roughly: "Anything you can do, I can do better...
Barbara Ann, with a peaches-&-cream complexion, saucer-size blue eyes and rosebud mouth, is certainly pretty enough. Her light brown hair (golden now that she bleaches it) falls pageboy style on her shoulders. She weighs a trim, girlish 107 Ibs. neither as full-bosomed as a Hollywood starlet nor as wide-hipped as most skaters. She looks, in fact, like a doll which is to be looked at but not touched. But Barbara Ann Scott is no fragile mammet. She is the women's figure-skating champion of the world...
...bluebooks were dealt out at her first exam, she extracted the standard tools from the pocket of her blue jeans--pen, pencils, eraser, postcard. Then, unwrapping a dainty, paper-sheathed parcel, she laid on her writing board a spoon, a pink cup and saucer, a small white packet of sugar, a pink napkin. Beside, them she stood a thermos of piping hot coffee...