Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Alexander Blackman tried to change the shape of the head of his sick daughter Helen by making her wear a thick leather helmet with adjustable chin straps...
...with their head gear. The venerable Stetson has sheltered many a worried head from the wintry blast along the Charles and has served in summer time as the proverbial boat-bailer. Stretched to twice its circumference or crunched into a pocket, it has come out smiling--resuming its shapeless shape with a tacit invitation for more mistreatment. In short, the "Harvard hat" has become renowned almost as much for its versatility as for its nonchalant appearance...
...swallowed it, asked for more, drank three glasses of champagne, went out to a speakeasy for a bottle of ale, smoked many cigarets. Impressed by the speed with which he had manipulated his enormous bulk and by the correctness of his boxing, critics predicted that if he keeps in shape and is properly schooled he will be as good a drawing-card as Dempsey at his best...
Editor Lester W. W. Morrow of Electrical World: "Electrical manufacturers are in splendid shape, except for an overproduction in radio sets...
Purpose: to provide Rumanian Government employes in Bucharest and elsewhere with 50,000 spandy new "model homes"; plus a liberal complement of highways', lighting systems, schools; plus a sugar plum for the Government itself in the shape of "the most magnificent Capitol Building in Europe...