Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willing to supply the entire funds for the company of a perfect man during the evening. If he rates fifty percent in their estimation, he must perforce pay half. The lower in their esteem the male falls, "the greater share he must foot." In other words, he must toe the mark...
...point of indiscretion about his love affairs, Gerhardi, now 36. admits to many, describes his inamoratas but preserves their pseudonymity. One. whom he calls "Nina," he won by "telling the story of the man who cut off his nose while shaving, dropped the razor and cut off his big toe, and in the confusion which overtook him clapped his nose on the stump of his toe, and his toe on his face, so that whenever thereafter he happened to blow his nose, his boot came off. She laughed freely, and felt herself drawn toward...
...lame, one was blind, two were one-eyed. The temperature of the water was 58° close to shore but it grew colder as the contestants got past the breakwater into the body of the lake. In the first hour, 40 swimmers, most of them overcome by "toe cold," were hauled out and taken to an emergency hospital. Of the three who finished, George Young, a burly young man from Toronto who four years ago won the 26-mile Catalina Island marathon, was first. His coach, Johnny Walker, and a life guard pulled him out of the water...
...first realistic War books to make a considerable sensation. Since then post-War upheaval has sent Latzko, like many a German and Austrian author, to sociological school. In Seven Days he measures the German social disorder with a top-to-toe glance...
...everybody; everywhere men took to her kindly. On a visit to India she went roller-skating, fell, had to be bandaged up and put to bed. A Maharajah called to pay his respects. Because of Daisy's bandages they were mutually invisible, so the Ma- harajah kissed her toe through the blanket. In Egypt she was taken to see a stomach-dance; "it looked horrid." But mostly her travels were in well-marked royal grooves: visits to England, appearances in Berlin, vacations in Southern France, Switzerland...