Word: sloucher
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...some people the Class Marshalship represented a similary honorific achievement, for which they thought I had qualified on the basis of my activities at Harvard. I have not been a sloucher, appearing for the first time on the public scene to run for this unorthodox post: I have on the contrary become fairly well-known for my work on the Crimson. Had I been a boy with the same qualifications, the ordinariness of my case would be obvious, and I most certainly would have gone down in unpublished defeat as just another ambitious politico-journalist. And strangely enough, there were...
Attenshun! In Chicago, Dr. Charles W. Goff, member of the Posture Committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, had a cheering word for stoop-shouldered men: a slight slouch and protruding rump, he said, is healthy, conserves energy, and keeps the sloucher alert...
...McAuliffe had little to say for modern man, whose back he compared to a saxophone. Slouching, said he, causes autointoxication of the digestive organs, displacement of the stomach from its normal position, a trap to collect poisons. And modern man is an inveterate sloucher -according to Dr. McAuliffe, "still a rather simian affair...
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