Word: thigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took no notice, but kept his whole attention on TIME. Finally he settled down to read a long article. At first he seemed taken up with the meat of it; then suddenly his eyes began to twinkle again and he chuckled out loud. "By George!" he said, slapping his thigh, and turning to a man beside him, "That was a well written article." Then he stopped, and seemed embarrassed to have spoken. But the man next to him began to ask about TIME, and when the old man got off at Wall Street the other man did also and they...
Newsgatherers who last week rushed to Bakersfield, Calif., and vicinity, caused countrywide journalistic thigh-smiting. They...
...sets out to put part of a story into a picture, his fancy slips cricket-wise into the subject, in small surprising lines that never reveal what they are about until they have done it. Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like a witch's pin or a bat's flight. None are straightforward or prosaic. Together, colored over and shaded in with pale washes, they create pictures of a world, half...
...Orient's big yield was announced from Batavia by Professor Heberlein of the Dutch Medical Service. At Trinil, in Central Java, near the spot where the Dutch medical missionary, Eugene Dubois, found two teeth, a thigh bone and the top of a skull...
...weeks later the terrible old man sent me a letter informing me that what I had eaten was part of the thigh of_ an executed murderess, which he had obtained through bribing the police. I need not add that I was sick to nausea for days and weeks afterwards...