Word: slit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that what a great many Irish Catholics and Protestants really want is a union of the whole island under the Prince of Wales as Head of the State! Jockey Beary described how, before he was admitted to talk with President de Valera, he was peered at through a steel slit in the door...
Emil Ganso has been called the artistic heir† of Jules Pascin (pronounced Pass-kin, born Pincas, first name unremembered, in Bulgaria of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother) who slit his wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated...
...Manoel's wife, Princess Augusta Victoria Hohenzollern, or his secretary, who were the only people in his house that afternoon, found a tube and forced it down his throat he might have lived longer. The glottis, the slit-like opening into the larynx, less than an inch long, is capable of swelling with alarming rapidity. Intubation (insertion of a tube) lets the patient breathe until the swelling has subsided. More frequently the physician will cut into the trachea through the neck and insert the tube from the outside. If laymen such as Dom Manoel's wife and secretary...
Nearly all the preferred female garments had thoroughgoing trousers, undisguised by any resemblance to beach pajamas or slit skirts. Soviet women, if they follow the lead of Moscow's show (and following may become compulsory), will dress morning, noon & night in garments resembling an aviatrix's flying suit...
...Slit eyes in the mask; wild loves that...