Word: torso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greatest fear was aroused by the prospect of wounds in the abdomen (29%), eyes (27%), brain (22%), genitals (20%). Least feared: wounds in the legs and feet, or hands and arms (12%), face (7%), torso...
...Author Edna Ferber, he was a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." To Novelist Charles Brackett, he seemed "a competent old horror with a style that combined clear treacle and pure black bile." Critic Percy Hammond found him "a mountainous jelly of hips, jowls and torso [but with] brains sinewy and athletic." Caustic Wit Dorothy Parker thought that he did "more kindness" than anyone she had ever known...
...Hell Point and across the Tenaru spit was strong. Many of them lay at the water's edge, and already were puffed and glossy, like shiny sausages. Some of the bodies had been partially buried by wave-washed sand; you might see a grotesque, bloated head or twisted torso sprouting from the beach...
Jamie-Boy's courtship is coarse but dashing. Time and again (on the rack, swimming, and, by a neat sidestep of the Hays office, in bed with her), Mr. Power gives Miss O'Hara and cinemaddicts an eyeful of his expensive torso. Later he kidnaps her aboard his ship, The Revenge, wolfs roast fowl at her in the Henry VIII manner. She succumbs. She stands by in a petticoat while, in a frenzy of rapiers, broadsides and bloated sails, Jamie-Boy and Governor Morgan liquidate Leech and crew. Occasionally Mr. Power has flashes of Douglas Fairbanks. Most...
Third in the series that began with Road to Singapore, this elaborate essay in slapstick is dedicated to the propositions that frenzy is fun and that even a cold-storage turkey can fly if its torso is Lamour, and if Hope and Crosby flap its wings. Neither proposition quite proves...