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...contemporary of Rhazes was called to the king's court to treat a lady in waiting for stiff joints. He tore off her veil and skirt, left her hot with shame. Her heat, wrote the doctor, dissolved the "rheumatic humor." She was cured...
...course, the perfect mate, as she was going to be, would never mind living in tatters if civilization and humanity were to be served. But then, it was possible that she wouldn't look as well in rags as she did in her Cashmere sweater and Trimingham's sport skirt. For a wild moment Vag wondered what was the quickest way to the fame and fortune which were certain to come his way sooner or later. A job with the Times, a year or so of brilliant dispatches filed from Bucharest, and then--Vag, free-lance writer; Vag., special adviser...
...Truth About 40," an analysis of the Senior Class's "mental, social, and cultural orientation" and the feature article in the Senior Class Album, will carefully skirt all references...
Somewhere three-quarters of the way from college to Sing Sing Tyrone meets up with Dotty, and she, the scheming wench, lifts her skirt two inches above her famous knees and by this most elementary of means turns his attention temporarily away from purely pecuniary sinning. Charley Grapewin, a crooked lawyer, spends all his time drinking a sickening mixture of scotch and milk until Lloyd Nolan, a rat of the second water in the inevitable role of a gangster, picturesquely stabs him to death with an icepick in a Turkish bath. A few double-crosses and prison breaks fail...
Although floods carried many delays and detours, by last night the swish of skirt was heard no more and the Big Green campus were along with its virility...