Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctors have long believed that pregnancy and confinement in adolescent girls may stunt their growth, cripple their pelvic organs, even affect their sanity. Several years ago Dr. Letitia Fairfield of London, a noted surgeon and sister of famed Novelist Rebecca West, set out to see how the facts fitted this belief. She visited London charity hospitals, examined 74 mothers between the ages...
Originally a publicity stunt to boost Hermosa Beach, California's Ironing Board Derby-said to be the world's longest aquaplane race-is sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association
...wrote "Monday I was free to climb over the darned walls and spend a night alone in the Parthenon," a lot of water had gone under the bridge. His Royal Road to Romance was a raving bestseller, and Richard's whole trip was a professional set piece: a stunt following-out of the wanderings of Ulysses...
These episodes and the change of spirit that took place between them may be understood from Halliburton's letters home, of which this volume is a selection. The stunts, it is obvious, became more & more staged, more & more weary, as time went on. Yet the naivete which made it possible for him to invent them was also nearly great enough to exonerate him of their ridiculousness, their frantic commercialism. His last stunt - a voyage across the Pacific in a Chinese junk, which ended somewhere at sea - was of a piece with all the rest...
...anyone within earshot, the tall-talking southwesterner blustered about his stunt (which never actually happened) of getting married under floodlights at the home plate of a Houston ball park, about his registering at three St. Louis hotels at one time so that he could flop when he liked. On sizzling hot days he would build a bonfire in front of the Cardinal dugout, wrap himself in a blanket, do an Indian war dance. One night, out of ennui in a Philadelphia hotel, he and two teammates, dressed in painters' overalls, dragged ladders and paint cans into a crowded...