Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thigh...
...York City, on the Williamsburg Bridge, was found a section of a woman's thigh. It had been cut by some one apparently skilled in surgery. Police searched the bridge, found two bloodstained newspapers but nothing else. Said Deputy Inspector George Bishop: "Looks like another Ludwig Lee murder...
...Ludwig Halversan Lee was convicted of a double murder, was electrocuted in 1928. First clue found was a woman's thigh in Prospect Place, Brooklyn...
...wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose an army of mice is offensive to national dignity" (TIME, July 21). Canadian censors ruled against another brand of sound cartoon because a leering fish in it writhed up to a mermaid and slapped her on the thigh. But censorship is only a form of public testimony that Mickey Mouse and other animated cartoons are an important and permanent element of international amusement. Sergei Eisenstein, famed Russian director, has said: "They are America's most original contribution to culture...
...make ends meet by playing the races. She got to be a well-known figure at the tracks but made no killing. Retired to a cheap French pension she outlived her poodle Babe, but not for long. The Author. Hearty Fannie Hurst (Mrs. Jacques S. Danielson) loves words like "thigh" and "sausage." Born in Hamilton, Ohio (near Cincinnati) 41 years ago, she grew up in St. Louis, now lives in Manhattan. Never destitute, she has acted as saleswoman, waitress, has traveled steerage, visited Soviet Russia to get material. Long and often the recipient of editors' rejection-slips...