Word: thighed
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...lasses who sell magazines from Parisian kiosks on the grand boulevards were elated last week when a lean stalwart priest, the Abbé Bethlehem, 57, was finally arrested after he had seized from the kiosks and torn up at least 300 copies of those magazines in which the feminine thigh is perennially displayed in frilly netherthings like the paper lace on a lamb chop. Heedless that he had taken coppers from the purses and bread from the mouths of kiosk women too weak to resist him, the strapping Abbé cried: "If I saw poison being offered to a child...
...gentleman, Charles Edgar Bowdoin, is my colleague of many years. That we should have been mistaken for strangers to each other is indeed curious. Perhaps it may interest your readers to know that I was perusing the article "Birthday Party" under WOMEN, NATIONAL AFFAIRS, when I slapped my thigh in appreciation, as described by Mrs. Phipps. It was Alice Roosevelt's use of a safety pin, so decorously described by your writer, which caused me to exclaim thus. I may own to you frankly my pleasure at being considered "a most distinguished looking old gentleman", epistola enim non erubescit...
...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...
...swift, light, swirling pages are a host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages) ; dirges for a Plantagenet, for Pan, for Nikoptis at Akr Caar; praise for Ysolt, for Evanoe, for thigh-embarked Daphne; a song of the Bowmen of Shu (China, 1100 B. C.) ; Browningesque (but far airier) narratives of Provence, her knights and troubadours. "Little naked and impudent songs," he has called his work. Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres...
Newsgatherers who last week rushed to Bakersfield, Calif., and vicinity, caused countrywide journalistic thigh-smiting. They...