Word: tasseling
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...hate my tassels, but the boys love them, so I let them have it," observed Sally Keith, tassel dancer appearing at present in Boston. Miss Keith centers most of the appeal of her "art" on four tassels, strategically located and rotating in contrasting directions...
...people are far from sexless. The flow of sex hormones does not ebb when men reach their 60s and 70s. Says Columbia's Anatomist Earl Theron Engle, spermatozoa are formed in at least 50% of old men. Bending a Freudian ear to their querulous complaints, Psychiatrist Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton of Santa Barbara, Calif, offers the opinion that old men & women are no less troubled by sex problems than are the young. Says he: "Many persons . . . who have passed their sixtieth year vaguely feel that it is time they were done with sex as a personal issue." This makes...
Hunters are in no danger from CCC boys, who are discouraged from having guns not only to avoid accidents* but so that pacifists cannot accuse the corps of being militaristic. To every CCCster at work in hunting country is issued a marker-a bright headband or hat tassel-as protection from quick-triggered hunters...
...School to perform and when he wrote it the author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning John Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully reveals that, although she loves Brom van Brunt, she must marry Ichabod Crane, because in the van Tassel family the eldest daughter must wed a schoolmaster or be carried off by a ghost...
...Fellows, waiting on the dusty stage, they filed like graduates in some fabulous commencement. First, according to seniority, came swarthy Professor Saleh Hashem Attia from that most ancient university, Al-Azhar, founded at Cairo in 970 A. D. Lanky, bespectacled President Conant, trying to keep the golden tassel of his mortarboard from slipping forward as he bowed, pumped Professor Attia's hand, drawled: "How do you do?" Next came delegates from Bologna, Paris, Oxford. Then up to the stage marched smiling Physicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and four other dons from Cambridge. As Chemist Conant grinned broadly at Physicist...