Word: squatly
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...mother, where will I find one?" Frank Kaslov asked. "For surely, mother, you would not see me joined to one of these squat women, with no teeth in their mouths, with noses like fishhooks...
...mouthwash maker to call his deodorant "The Senator So & So" very short-sighted of a tire producer to christen his inner tubes for The Battleship Maine.* What adjective, then, can be applied to Louis and Isadore Cohen of New York City, who without permission bestowed upon a squat, ugly, evil-smelling cigar** the name of Maria Jeritza, prima donna...
With a few polished phrases, His Grace the Duke of Connaught unveiled at Hyde Park corner a vast squat howitzer of cut stone, London's War memorial to the Royal Artillery. As it loomed above the traffic that sweeps past St. George's Hospital, Britons felt a crinkly shiver along their spines. Four titanic bronze artillerymen give to the composition a gruesome air of stark reality, making the cold stone of the howitzer seem like colder steel...
Meanwhile Marshall Petain was ordering his soldiers to squat down on their present position and wait until spring, when the present torrential rains will cease. Already more rain has fallen during October than the average total precipitation for both October and November. In the French sector, every road is a bog, every valley is a swamp...
With night came illuminations. The Cathedral, its whole interior richly carved and gilded, blazed with an intensity offset by the gloomy shadows cast by its 20 squat Doric columns. Across the plaza, in the Palacio Nacional,* President Calles gave first a reception and then a ball. At midnight the festivities abated for an instant. President Calles stepped out upon the central balcony of the palace and pulled a cord which is pulled by every President of Mexico who manages to remain in office until a 16th of September. Boomed forth "The Liberty Bell? of Mexico." Cried Senor Calles "Viva Mejico...